to face in person, so thank you for tuning in and obviously double-dip honored that you ve agreed to speak with me tonight about the book ron kovic. right. not kovac. we were introduced by tom come sport media writer years ago. ron has been very encouraging and helped quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. ron of course was a vietnam veteran. most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and a just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead ender, a no hope for as they were called. if the average lifespan was a team is for someone wounded in world war i. world war ii was a game changer. the advent of penicillin, sulfur drugs. they had surgical units right behind the battlefield come right behind the front lines and they had better evacuation back to the mainland so by the end of world war ii you had a cohort of about 2500 u.s. vetera
not kovach. we were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth . ron of course was a vietnam veteran. most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking . before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called . it s the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i . world war ii was the game changer. the advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. so by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and
brian: why is he such a big deal? jane: he was an original. the general manager of the washington nationals, one of the first guys i interviewed a years ago, he said he was the original original. he is an archetype. he is the guy who came into baseball and changed everything, from the way it was played to the way players were represented, to the way architecture was built everything was different after babe ruth. brian: let s go through some basics. born where? jane: baltimore. brian: to what parents? jane: george and katie. he was the first of their children, she was two months pregnant when they got married. was a sequence of children born to them afterward. there is some dispute whether they had eight or six, but of the children i could locate in archives come up for died in infancy, and of those, two died of starvation. brian: where did he go to school and how much did he have? jane: he was sent to st. mary s industrial school, which was in western baltimore, it was bas
brian: jane leavy, author of the big fella, who was he? jane: babe ruth. my cabdriver was saying babe ruth, the babe ruth. this is a guy from nigeria. he was thrilled to see him on the cover of the book. brian: why is he such a big deal? jane: he was an original. the general manager of the washington nationals, one of the first guys i interviewed eight years ago, he said he was the original original. he is an archetype. he is the guy who came into baseball and changed everything, from the way it was played to the way players were represented, to the way architecture was built everything was different after babe ruth. brian: let s go through some basics. born where? jane: baltimore. brian: to what parents? jane: george and katie. he was the first of their children, she was two months pregnant when they got married. there was a sequence of children born to them afterward. there is some dispute whether they had eight or six, but of the children i could locate in archives,doe
clooney, more adami there are 13 dow stocks reporting next week. companies ranging from apple to boeing to exxon to pfizer. should you be trading these lucky 13 or fading them? these mega cap stocks. and what does it mean for the broader market guy adami, what does it mean to y you? that s a brilliant lead for the show. i had nothing to do with it, but thank you. apple up 7% in the past month. there s going to be a lot of consternation on the back of this, but i will say you fade apple oh, i thought they were saying you re wrong. no, it s the fade it that s the fade it symbol. i ll give you the reasons why. thank you. on january 2nd when apple gave their miserable guidance, the stock closed at basically 157.92 traded down to 142.5 it is now round trip and we re back where we started. quite frankly, the data hasn t gotten in better in some regards it s gotten worse. i m not sure what they re going to report but i think the stock got the benefit of a stock market