Originally posted by ElCaminoSS
How did your team fare the day you were born?
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Originally posted by RuthMayBondThat may be true, but the "other" Dodgers had a funny story on this date in 1995
I note they defeated the Pirates 11-10 in bottom of 11th, the middle game of a 3 game sweep, at Dodgers Stadium in front of 44,032 spectators, but that was about all I could find out!."A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz." ~Humphrey Bogart
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. ~Tommy Lasorda
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Originally posted by Bklyn Boy since 1936I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born."I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
Carl Yastrzemski
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Originally posted by oscargamblesfroanybody have any recommendations of sites where i can find this info?
Bob
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Originally posted by Bklyn Boy since 1936I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born.
"History of Television Timeline
Main Page
• History of Television
By Mary Bellis
Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone, contributed to the evolution of TV.
1831: Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism makes possible the era of electronic communication to begin.
1862: Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his "pantelegraph" and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
1873: Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this opens the door for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
1876: Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a "selenium camera" that would allow people to "see by electricity." Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube.
Late 1870's: Scientists and engineers like Paiva, Figuier, and Senlecq were suggesting alternative designs for "telectroscopes."
1880: Inventors like Bell and Edison theorize about telephone devices that transmit image as well as sound. Bell's photophone used light to transmit sound and he wanted to advance his device for image sending. George Carey builds a rudimentary system with light-sensitive cells.
1881: Sheldon Bidwell experiments with telephotography, another photophone.
1884: Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the "electric telescope" with 18 lines of resolution.
1900: At the World's Fair in Paris, the 1st International Congress of Electricity was held, where Russian, Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."
Soon after, the momentum shifted from ideas and discussions to physical development of TV systems. Two paths were followed:
Mechanical television - based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and
Electronic television - based on the cathode ray tube work done independently in 1907 by English inventor A.A. Campbell-Swinton and Russian scientist Boris Rosing.
1906: Lee de Forest invents the "Audion" vacuum tube that proved essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ablity to amplify signals. Boris Rosing combines Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV system.
1907: Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images - independent of each other, they both develop electronic scanning methods of reproducing images.
American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.
1923: Vladimir Zworykin patents his iconscope a TV camera tube based on Campbell Swinton's ideas. The iconscope, which he called an "electric eye" becomes the cornerstone for further television development. He later develops the kinescope for picture display.
1924 - 1925: American Charles Jenkins and John Baird from Scotland, each demonstrate the mechanical transmissions of images over wire circuits. Photo Left: Jenkin's Radiovisor Model 100 circa 1931, sold as a kit. Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk. Vladimir Zworykin patents a color television system.
1926: John Baird operates a 30 lines of resolution system at 5 frames per second.
1927: Bell Telephone and the U.S. Department of Commerce conduct the first long distance use of TV, between Washington D.C. and New York City on April 9th. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover commented, “Today we have, in a sense, the transmission of sight for the first time in the world’s history. Human genius has now destroyed the impediment of distance in a new respect, and in a manner hitherto unknown.” Philo Farnsworth files for a patent on the first complete electronic television system, which he called the Image Dissector.
1928: The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television license (W3XK) to Charles Jenkins.
1929: Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates the first practical electronic system for both the transmission and reception of images using his new kinescope tube. John Baird opens the first TV studio, however, the image quality was poor.
1930: Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial. The BBC begins regular TV transmissions.
1933: Iowa State University (W9XK) starts broadcasting twice weekly television programs in cooperation with radio station WSUI.
1936: About 200 hundred television sets are in use world-wide. The introduction of coaxial cable, which is a pure copper or copper-coated wire surrounded by insulation and an aluminum covering. These cables were and are used to transmit television, telephone and data signals. The 1st "experimental" coaxial cable lines were laid by AT&T between New York and Philadelphia in 1936. The first “regular” installation connected Minneapolis and Stevens Point, WI in 1941. The original L1 coaxial-cable system could carry 480 telephone conversations or one television program. By the 1970's, L5 systems could carry 132,000 calls or more than 200 television programs."
So, you see, TV was around for a LONG time before you came into the world.
Bob
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April 22, 1936 Boston Bees @ Brooklyn Dodgers
Originally posted by Bklyn Boy since 1936I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born.
The Dodgers shut out the Bees 5-0.
Van Mungo led the National League that year with 238 along with Dizzy Dean
coming in a distant second with 195, and the Dodgers finished seventh, 25 games behind the New York Giants.
And speaking of machetes Mungo had to be smuggled out of spring training in Cuba to "escape the machete-wielding husband of a nightclub dancer with whom he'd been caught in bed" (deadballera.com)
This is Mungo in his 1939 Play Ball card.Attached Files"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
Carl Yastrzemski
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Originally posted by bluezebraTelevision was invented before your parents were born."I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
Carl Yastrzemski
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July 16, 1941 Reds @ Giants
Originally posted by driver62What did the Reds do on July 16, 1941?
Elmer Riddle led the league with a 2.24 ERA and Johnny Vander Meer took the strike out crown with 202. Vander Meer, of course, pitched back to back no hitters in 1938 one happening at the first night game at Ebbet's Field. in Brooklyn. He also pitched the longest 0-0 tie in baseball history. If anyone knows when and who this was against, can you please let us know?
The Reds finished the season at 88-66, good enough for third place, 12 games behind the Brooklyn Dodgers.
This is Vander Meer's 1949 Bowman card.Attached Files"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
Carl Yastrzemski
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Originally posted by Aa3rtJuly 1st, 1953-the ORIGINAL Washington Senators, enroute to a 76-76 record and 5th place finish, defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in Philly by the score of 5-3.
If someone would like to post any additional information, I'd be most appreciative.
Mickey Vernon led the American league in batting average at .337 and doubles with 43. A bit of an iron man himself, Vernon retired having played more games than anyone at first base with 2,237. Dwight Eisenhower had a penchant for Vernon; he was the president's favourite player.
Pitcher Bob Porterfield Finished with a league high 22 wins, one shy of Robin Roberts and Warren Spahn in the National League.Attached Files"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
Carl Yastrzemski
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July 15 - 18, 1982 Brewers take the Brooms to the White Sox
Originally posted by ChisoxHey! Change the date to 41 years later and you have my b-day?
Of course, you realize that was the last day of Joe Ds hit streak? (at least ended in-tact)
Five games you say, Troy?
Yes it was five games. The previous day, the Sox had lost a doubleheader. The next day, while you were wondering who had turned on all the lights, Paul Molitor, Phil Gantner, Ted Simmons, Moose Haus and Rollie Fingers were busy giving it to Jerry Koosman and the White Sox. Robin Yount, who went hitless this day, was held to only five hits in the series.
La Marr Hoyt, seen here in his 1984 Topps card, helped the White Sox to a third place finish in the American League West, six games behind the California Angels with his league leading 19 wins.
Twenty three years later, the Baseball Gods smiled on you.Attached Files"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
Carl Yastrzemski
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Sept 20, 1959 Tigers 5 @ White Sox 4
Originally posted by leecemark--Too lazy to check out how the game turned out that day (Sept 20, 1959), but it was the waning days of a disappointing season in a disappointing decade for the Tigers. They did have some individual heros, with Harvey Kuenn winning the batting title, Al Kaline leading the league in slugging and Eddie Yost in runs.Attached Files"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
Carl Yastrzemski
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Well, on my birthday of October 1, 1955 (yep, I'm that old, my dear Giants, then in New York, had completed the season (only 154 games then) a week earlier, and presumably they were finishing packing to go their off-season homes and jobs. (Yeah, players' paltry salaries required 'em to do that.) The bigger news everywhere on my birthday was that young actor James Dean had died in an auto accident the previous day.
The Giants had stumbled through a lumbering, middle of the pack season, burdened by old timers who didn't have it the way they did back in the 1951 hey day (like Sal Maglie and Al Dark), or newcomers who weren't quite there yet (Johnny Antonelli) or never would bes. This year was also Leo "The Lip" Durocher's last as the Giants' skipper. The still had two more desultory years left in New York, before they would move to the West Coast and pick up in short order such future HOFers as Cepeda, McCovey and Marichal.
But, they had Willie Mays, who led the team in every significant offensive category -- highlighted by his 51 home runs to go with his .319 batting average and 127 home runs. In a way, 1955 truly was his break-out year, showing the baseball world that he had that fifth "tool" -- power -- to go along with his fielding, throwing, baserunning, and hitting for average.sigpicIt's not whether you fall -- everyone does -- but how you come out of the fall that counts.
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