Im ellee pai hong. And im kerry sayers and im your host, bill kurtis. This is baseballs greats through the decades. Today here on through the decades we are taking the hour to look at the boys of october and the game they love. Baseball has proved to be a muse for poets, musicians and authors and moviemakers. You can debate whether its still americas favorite sport but its motions and rhythms are so ingrained in our american psyche, it will forever be our National Pastime. Joins us as we look back on the greats of the game who have earned their place not only in baseball lore but enshrined in the american story itself. So we begin with a young player in new york. As popular legend goes, in june, 1925, wally pipp, the new york yankees long time first skipper recommended he take a seat to let the kid play. An easy decision at the time with the yanks struggling. It also proved to jump start an unbelievable streak and the career for the kid we would know as lou gehrig. Today, i consider my
And im kerry sayers and im your host, bill kurtis. This is baseballs greats through the decades. Today here on through the decades we are taking the hour to look at the boys of october and the game they love. Baseball has proved to be a muse for poets, musicians and authors and moviemakers. You can debate whether its still americas favorite sport but its motions and rhythms are so ingrained in our american psyche, it will forever be our National Pastime. Joins us as we look back on the greats of the game who have earned their place not only in baseball lore but enshrined in the american story itself. So we begin with a young player in new york. As popular legend goes, in june, 1925, wally pipp, the new york yankees long time first baseman, had a headache and his skipper recommended he take a seat to let the kid play. An easy decision at the time with the yanks struggling. It also proved to jump start an unbelievable streak and the career for the kid we would know as lou gehrig. Today,
He works at the six oldest reform congregation in the United States and has a illustrious history. Ings a rabbi was the lead jewish abolitionist in the United States during the civil war and was known as the abolitionist temple and since then it has a long history of social activism, but in addition to that, he has a phd in history from the university of cincinnati and has written a number of books on americanjewish history and is within a number of scholarly articles as well as articles in the more popular press and i have the honor of coauthoring an article with lance on the Huffington Post this year on the brandeis confirmation which we are also celebrating this year. Lance, thisducing is one of the great virtues of being the conference coordinator. I can add to the program whatever i want and i just wanted to add one footnote to andrews paper because i think it is relevant to what we will be talking about today. That is that in 1866 when , 150 years ago, in 1866 in congress is deba
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