President ial library and museum hosted this event. First, i want to say good afternoon and thank some people. Of course tim for letting me come and speak to you today. And of course samantha, who handled a lot of the publicity for the event. She did just a wonderful job. There was also a local Radio Station who did a great interview and between newspaper and radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit. I want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you why we are here. The kansas city monarchs were a Negro League Baseball team. Perhaps most of you have heard of them. Some of the great players maybe you heard of Jackie Robinson or Satchel Paige. Organized 1920, 1920 four and one the first world championship. That was 90 years ago. Way torying to figure a honor these brave men who purely play for the love of the game because they did not make great salaries back then. I decided i was going to visit 90 cities to commem
The packard car company, which said you could go 300 miles in a day. I guess he was desperate for ads because he did not like cars. Westin did not like cars just because he thought they made people walk less. Ironically, westin in 1927, was crossing a street in manhattan and was hit by a car and was left crippled and never walked again and died two years later at the age of 90. Oleary fareed a little better. He would stage walking exhibitions before Major League Baseball games. He would go out and challenge the fastest runner on the team to run around the bases twice while he walked around once and more often than not he won, and then he would pass the hat. Literally, pass a hat through the stands collecting nickels and dimes and this is basically how he funded his retirement. The book, i have a scene where i imagine he performed before a game in chicago between the white sox and as in 1927 and i imagine the players in the dugout were all born well, well after the golden age, they prob
Joy to the world and merry christmas, everyone. Stores slashing prices in the final hours. The breaking discounts right now, as santa takes off with his sleigh full of presents. Were tracking him live around the globe on this Christmas Eve. And good morning, america, on this Christmas Eve. Were already filled with the christmas spirit, thanks to our carolers. A lot more from them, coming up. We just saw santa. I think norads tracking him already. Yes. Took off from the north pole just a little while ago. Were going to be following him all throughout the morning. Hes over the Solomon Islands right now. It will be christmas in australia in about an hour. Were going to be tracking santa all through the morning. Kids, the journey has begun. We have a lot of news to get to. The deadline extended for 24 hours for people to sign up for obamacare, after a huge crush of visitors on monday. And the headline about pregnant women and peanuts. A new study saying that eating them during pregnancy co
The walk from Portland Maine to washington in less than 30 days and find another gambler who was tolli willing to say he couldnt. It was interesting because in races like that but in walking fe walkings like that there was a lot of fear that somebody might try to sabotage him so he wouldnt make it. He actually brought a food taster along with him when he did the walk from portland, maine to chicago to make sure nobody tried to poison him. Even if you made him sick for two days, it might be enough for his schedule to be off. He was meticulous about his schedule. He scheduled ef mvery minute. He had everything scheduled out. When he would sleep or eat. Those sorts of things. If he was taken off of that schedule, he would be in trouble. A couple of comments. It seems that the speed that you referred to seems phenomenal especially over that period of time. Number two, true man was famous for being a walker. Evide everyday he took his constitutional walk. Referring to the speed of the pedes