Doctor In New Book Tells A Different Story

Harry Houdini (l) with Senator Arthur Capper at Senate hearings on spiritualism February 26, 2926,  photo: National Photographic Company via LOC

If Harry Houdini is not still the world’s most famous magician, I’m not quite sure who is. David Copperfield? David Blaine? Penn and Teller?

To add to Houdini’s fame as an entertainer, he spent many year’s of his life debunking spiritualists and psychics. Houdini believed spiritualists were con artists and parasites preying upon the troubled and grief-stricken.

It is ironic that seances are now held every Halloween to try and communicate with Houdini on the anniversary of his death October 31, 1926.

Houdini And A Punch

The story of the event that reportedly led to Houdini’s death remain murky.

Before a performance at a vaudeville show in Montreal on Friday, October 22, magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was being visited by two students from McGill University in his dressing room at the Princess Theatre. Samuel J. Smilovitch, was sketching Houdini. and Jacques Price was along with him. Soon to join them was McGill library worker Joscelyn Gordon Whitehead who had asked for an interview with Houdini.

Whitehead and Houdini conversed for a while. The subject got around to health and feats of strength. There is much controversy about what happened next. The legend is that Houdini was asked by Whitehead if it was true he could take a hard punch to the stomach. Whitehead would claim that Houdini invited him to hit him to prove he could control his stomach muscles and be hit with no ill effect.

If Houdini was asked by Whitehead if he could take a punch, Houdini may have said yes. Some versions of the story disagree as to Houdini’s understanding of the question or if he responded at all. But, before Houdini was ready and could prepare himself, the 29-year-old Whitehead suddenly threw a series of punches into Houdini’s abdomen.

Whitehead said Houdini instructed him to hit him in the abdomen. To further confuse the issue in his sworn affidavit Whitehead states the punch occurred not on October 22, but the day before on Thursday, October 21.

On Sunday, October 24 Houdini held his final performance at Detroit’s Garrick Theatre. Houdini checked himself into Grace Hospital the next day.  On Halloween, Houdini died, after undergoing two operations during the week. The official cause was streptococcus peritonitis and a ruptured appendix (possibly caused by being punched).

New Research Tells A Different Story

Harry Houdini January 20, 1926, nine months before his death at age 52, photo: National Photographic Co. via LOC

Dr. Larrian Gillespie, author of the new book Houdini: The Man Who Died Twice, (Cipher House Books, 2026) says there is evidence Houdini’s death was not caused by a punch. Furthermore, it’s very possible Houdini did not die on October 31.

In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning Gillespie said, “There’s something very wrong with this death certificate, I see numbers were copied and then rewritten over. This was a cover-up.”

Dr. Gillespie says what ultimately did Houdini in was due to an intestinal blockage and last-minute surgery. The stomach-punch story was blamed in part to get a bigger insurance payment.

Houdini had a double indemnity life insurance policy. If Houdini died as a result of an accident, the payout would double.

Gillespie added, “I can put forth a very strong case that he died on October 30th and not the 31st,” she said. “By moving the date over to the next day, every time Halloween came up, you would remember that Houdini coincidentally died that day.”

Regardless of when or how he died Houdini’s fame endures. Houdini is one of the few entertainers who is still well known 100 years after his death.

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On November 3, 2026 idiots will flock to the polls to cast their votes. I am not talking about the legal defined term for idiot that three states prohibit from casting a ballot. No, I’m Just referring to people voting for politicians and policies advocating the destruction of the republic.

Since no one will admit to being an idiot, it would be wise to examine the word “idiot”.

In the 1948 film The Three Musketeers the Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton)  says to Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury) that her husband, King Louis XIII, is an “idiot.”

Was “idiot” really used to describe someone in 18th century France or was the screenwriter putting an anachronistic term in the film?

Revisiting the etymology of “idiot” it is possible that idiot may have been used in the 1700s.

The biased and incomplete Wikipedia (which we generally do  not source), notes that:

The Greek noun idiōtēs ‘a private person, individual’  ‘a common man’, or ‘a person lacking professional skill, layman’ (as opposed to a craftsman or expert). Later, it came to mean ‘unskilled’ or ‘ignorant’. Latin borrowed idiota in the meaning ‘uneducated’, ‘ignorant’, ‘common’, and in Late Latin came to mean ‘crude, illiterate, ignorant’. In French, it kept the meaning of ‘illiterate’, ‘ignorant’, and added the meaning ‘stupid’ in the 13th century. In English, it added the meaning ‘mentally deficient’ in the 14th century.

In 19th- and early 20th-century medicine and psychology, an “idiot” was a person with a very profound intellectual disability, being diagnosed with “idiocy”. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for intellectual disability based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[16] The term “idiot” was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30

These mental classifications which we wrote about previously have been abandoned.

Yet three states, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio keep the term idiot in their state constitutions and explicitly forbid idiots to vote.

Mississippi’s law on voting:

Article 12 SECTION 241.
Every inhabitant of this state, except idiots and insane persons, who is a citizen of the United States of America, eighteen (18) years old and upward, who has been a resident of this state for one (1) year, and for one (1) year in the county in which he offers to vote, and for six (6) months in the election precinct or in the incorporated city or town in which he offers to vote, and who is duly registered as provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy, is declared to be a qualified elector, except that he shall be qualified to vote for President and Vice President of the United States if he meets the requirements established by Congress therefor and is otherwise a qualified elector.

Answering the original question, why can idiots vote? It is because 47 states have no law explicitly forbidding an “idiot” to vote and clearly defining what comprises the modern equivalent of an idiot. As noted, the modern terminology for idiot is someone with “profound intellectual disability.”

Modern Idiots

The word idiot itself is not offensive. We use it every day to describe motorists who weave in and out of lanes of heavy traffic, cutting in front of others in a long line or those who tattoo their face. If anyone gets a face tattoo, it should just be words saying “Don’t Hire Me”

Maybe idiot can be brought back into legal use. And a law passed in every state prohibiting idiots from voting.

Just redefine “idiot” as a person who believes in voting for politicians and policies who wish to bring about the destruction of the “United” States.

Idiots are responsible for granting power to repugnant assailants of Western civilization and America.  The proof is in the elections of  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani; New York Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez; Minnesota Representative Ihlan Omar; Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett and others.

Who would vote these reprehensible, unqualified people into positions of power?

Idiots.

People who think everything should be free and paid for by the government or the “wealthy”. Fools who believe that redistribution (confiscation) of money and resources are right and just. Those who view the United States as a country of inequity and inequality founded upon racism. And most alarmingly, the brainwashed youth who want “change” without understanding the ramifications of their revolt.

The faculty and agenda of institutions of higher learning insure that the number of idiots will continue to increase.

They will vote in large numbers.

The result? Permanent European-type discord coming to America soon that will make our current strife look minuscule.

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This cabinet card amateur photo of City Hall and its park has a notation on the rear “1897. Who took it and when in 1897 will never be known.

We cannot see the time on the clock of City Hall’s tower. The fountain does not appear to have its water running. Based upon the leaves on the trees and clothing worn, it is likely this scene was captured sometime between April and October. That doesn’t narrow the date down, but it gives us a general time frame.

Men, all wearing hats, sit on benches wiling away the time. Pedestrians cross the park to and from Park Row to Broadway. A park worker stands dead center in front of the fountain with a broom.

In the intervening 129 years since the photo was taken the main difference is access. Today an unfriendly security fence surrounds City Hall. No one can just walk up to the building to “fight City Hall.”

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Entrance to St. Louis’ Sportsman’s Park Game 7, 1964 World Series photo: Marvin E. Newman

Marvin E. Newman was a photographer who took thousands of baseball photographs, many for Sports Illustrated during the 1950s -1970s.

The 1964 World Series was the last World Series played at the iconic Sportsman’s Park. Although Cardinals owner August Busch Jr. of Budweiser brewery fame renamed the ballpark for himself in 1953, most St. Louis fans still called it Sportsman’s Park until the ballpark closed in 1966.

All the photos below by Marvin E. Newman are from game seven of the World Series at Sportsman’s Park on October 15, 1964.

Previous to 1964, the last time the Cardinals defeated the Yankees in the World Series was in 1942, four games to one.

Above,  Bill White is stepping up to the plate. Lou Brock, just moments before, led off the bottom of the fifth with a home run to left center field.

The Cardinals scored three runs in the fourth and another three runs in the fifth. The  commanding 6-0 lead seemed safe.

Then In the sixth inning Mickey Mantle came up for the Yankees with two men on and hit a home run deep to left center field to cut the lead in half. Mantle is seen rounding first base with Bobby Richardson and Roger Maris both passing second base to score.

But Cardinals star pitcher Bob Gibson was not going to give in. Though Gibson allowed two more Yankee home runs to Clete Boyer and Phil Linz in the ninth inning, Gibson would win his second game of the World Series. Gibson struck out nine, allowed nine hits and walked three in a 147 pitch, 7-5 complete game victory.

After the final out, all the Cardinals rushed to surround Gibson.

Security was a bit lax back then and as reporters, security and  police try and maintain order hundreds of fans  go on the field to join in the celebration.

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Want to Get Good Seats? Be First In Line

Brooklynite Has Food Supply To Wait All Night For World Series
New York: Photo shows Arthur Jones of 913 East 12th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. with a supply of sandwiches, all ready to spend the night outside the Yankee Stadium to wait for the World series to begin. Arthur is the first on line having found his position at nine A.M. the day before the series opens. credit International News, 10-3-1928

Living in New York if you wanted to experience the 1928 World Series live you had only two choices.

One way was to tune in at 1:15 P.M. to one of the four local radio stations covering the game. You could choose to listen to the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) New York affiliates; WEAF and WJZ, with announcers Graham McNamee and Phillips Carlin describing the action. Or, you could listen to the  Columbia Broadcast System (CBS)  call of the game with Major James Andrew White on stations WOR and WJZ . White, by the way was the first person ever to broadcast a sporting event on July 2 1921. It was a prize fight between heavyweights Jack Dempsey and Jacques Carpentier.

The other choice was to attend the game in person, like superfan Arthur Jones. Fans who were not season ticket holders who wanted to be at Yankee Stadium could go up to the box office and buy tickets the day of the game. There were no advance sales of tickets.

We make the assumption that someone would hold Arthur Jones’ place, first in line, when he would need to use a bathroom.

There was no television or other electronic device to transmit what was happening to keep fans informed.

The New York Times predicted the opening game at Yankee Stadium would attract a record crowd of 80,000 fans. Neither of the two games at Yankee Stadium were sellouts. Game one’s attendance was 61,425. Game two would draw 60,714.

The 1928 Fall Classic began on October 4. It was concluded on October 9 as the Yankees swept the St. Louis Cardinals.

The 2026 World Series is now practically the Winter Classic and will begin after all the leaves have fallen from the trees on October 23.

50 Years After Arthur Jones

Teams cut back on selling postseason tickets at the ballpark in the 1970s. For many years, teams would primarily sell playoff and World Series tickets in advance by mail, payable only by a certified check or money order.

In 1977 against the Kansas City Royals, Yankees playoff box seats were only $9 and reserve seats cost $7. You had to buy a strip of two tickets; one to each of the two games to be held at the Stadium. There was a limit of four strips per customer.

This seemed like a fair price for an exciting event and I wanted to go. You could still buy playoff tickets at Yankee Stadium in advance on September 24, but the lines would be extremely long. The mail order system was essentially a lottery. Demand was heavy, but somehow I got playoff tickets through the mail. When the 1977 World Series tickets went on sale they were still a relative bargain at  $15 for a box and $10 for a reserved seat

By 1980 the Yankees had ceased selling playoff and World Series tickets by mail or the Stadium box office.

The only way to buy tickets was at the Yankees official ticket outlet, Ticketron. Ticketron was usually located within a record or department store.

So in 1981, I figured I would  arrive on line really early. Not a full day before, like Arthur Jones. I arrived at a small Ticketron agency on Broadway in the Bronx. at 5:00 A.M., four hours before tickets went on sale.

Well, I should have got up earlier. I was about 200th in line .

At 9:00 A.M. Ticketron began selling tickets all over the city. The line moved at a snail’s pace as the nascent computer system could handle only one playoff purchase at a time throughout all the Ticketron outlets. At about 1:30 P.M. I reached the ticket counter and bought my tickets. Less than five minutes later the games were sold out.

My seats were in the 26th row in the upper deck between third base and left field.

If only I had been more like Arthur Jones.

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A Pensive Alice White In “Show Girl” -1928

Once again we feature a forgotten movie star of the silent and early sound era – Alice White seen here in pensive mood in Show Girl (1928).

Born Alva White August 25, 1904 in Paterson, NJ, Alice was first in the employ of director Tom Forman as a script girl. Alice moved on to be an assistant  to director Josef Von Sternberg. Later she worked for Charlie Chaplin.  It was Chaplin who saw potential in Alice and suggested she try performing before the camera.

Alice got her first role as an extra in The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and her career was off and running. Three years later Alice won the starring role in The Sea Tiger (1927).

Imdb.com says Alice was five foot three, but contemporary accounts say Alice White was just five feet tall and weighed 98 pounds. Regardless, the diminutive Alice dyed her hair from its natural reddish brown color to platinum blonde to avoid comparisons with Clara Bow.

Alice made a string of top flight movies in the late 1920s including the original and now lost silent film, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928). Alice did not play the Lorelei Lee role later made famous by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 musical version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Instead Alice played Lorelei’s best friend, brunette Dorothy Shaw,

Alice made the transition to talkies without any voice issues. Movie fans loved Alice; the critics did not.

Here is a short clip from 1933 featuring James Cagney in Picture Snatcher (1934)

Alice White On Relationships

Alice also had a reputation off screen that rivaled Clara Bow’s as a woman about town.  A conversation with Alice about relationships in The Film Weekly with columnist Helen Louise Walker in 1930 was very frank about how women should be more in control of a relationship.

In the article Helen Walker made the following astute observations about Alice White.

Alice White is in some ways one of the most interesting people in pictures. For one thing, she is one of the most outstanding examples of the success of sheer personality in the industry. Alice is not beautiful. She is careless about her appearance. She has never shown any outstanding talent in any direction. The best that you can say of her accomplishments, for the most part, is that they are “adequate.” Yet she has risen from telephone operator and script girl to be one of our most prominent stars. And deservedly.

She is frank and casual in discussing her affairs. What she resents more than anything else she has encountered, I think, is the freedom men enjoy in matters of the heart as compared with the restrictions they try to place on women.

“Women,” Alice says, hotly, “should try to change the way men treat women! Men can do anything they want to do, and get away with it. They know we can’t stop them. They know we’ll put up with it and take them back and forgive them. They won’t do that for us!

“What happens when a man and a girl who have been in love quarrel and separate? This is what happens. The girl mopes and broods and thinks she has a broken heart and that it will never heal.

“The man goes right straight out and finds himself another girl as fast as he can.

Alice’s feeling about what a woman should do in the same situation was more of a twenty-first century attitude as quid pro quo.

“The best cure for a broken heart is another affair. As quickly as possible. If you can manage it. The trouble is that women are so romantic. They like to brood on their broken hearts. They actually like their tragedies.’

Alice then provides some timeless advice about relationships. “And then there is  – habit. You know. That business of learning to depend on someone, of getting used to him. It’s terrible when anybody gets to be a habit with you. It isn’t really that you think he is the only person in the world . It isn’t actually you believe you will never fall in love again. it’s just that you’ve had him around so long, you just can’t accustom yourself to being without him.”

Regarding her philosophy with men, specifically her boyfriend, screenwriter – producer Sy Bartlett, Alice said,

“He’s always telling me I’m just a little kid and need someone to take care of me. He thinks he decides things for me.  He even thinks he bosses me around. And I let him.

“I look at him like this —.” Alice makes her famous pout. ” And then I do exactly what I want to do.  But I don’t tell him so. That’s one thing you have to do with men – let them think they are having their own way.”

No Shortage Of Men Or Affairs

Bob Moak’s  follow-up article for the March 1, 1930 Film Weekly was “How Love Reformed “Hectic” Alice White.” The article describes Alice White’s many sexual conquests and how she followed her own advice jumping from relationship to relationship until finding true love with Sy Bartlett.

The article lists just some of Alice White’s many affairs. There was film director Tom Foeman; movie star John Gilbert; director Victor Fleming; stage and screen actor Leslie Fenton; aviator Dick Grace, and film extra Jimmie O’Neill.

A Turning Point – 1933

Sy Bartlett & Alice White photo Elmer Fryer

In 1933 Alice White and Sy Bartlett broke up.  Bartlett soon took up with Boots Mallory. White began an torrid affair with British actor John Warburton.

It did not end well.

After a Beverly Hills party, Warburton beat Alice in her home until she was “frightfully disfigured.’ Her eyes were swollen so much she she could not see. Warburton dragged her outside the house and then struck her again without warning.  He then sat on her and grabbed her by the hair.  The beating was so bad Alice said “It’s a wonder I didn’t  die.” Alice ended up needing a plastic surgeon to fix her nose.

Outraged about the savage attack upon his former love, Sy Bartlett conferred with Alice White to plot revenge.

Bartlett allegedly hired two movie extras Russell B. Brown and Martin Block  to beat and disfigure Warburton.

Under the pretense of robbing Warburton, Brown and Block beat Warburton up on September 16. The police were able to track down the perpetrators. Brown and Block confessed that they were paid $50 and the promise of more film work for pummeling Warburton at Bartlett’s, request. Alice White and Sy Bartlett were brought in by the police for questioning on October 3. The pair vigorously denied hiring the actors to beat Warburton.

The case went to trial, and both Brown and Block were acquitted by a jury on November 21.

Two weeks later Sy Bartlett and Alice White were married on December 3. The pair divorced less than five years later on February 17, 1938.

Alice White married actor – writer Jack Roberts August 24, 1940. The union ended in divorce April 14, 1949. It was a very unhappy marriage and the pair fought for years over alimony payments and wife swapping allegations.

But it was after the Warburton scandal that Alice White’s career took a nosedive. Alice’s roles became second tier. For an actress who had made over 30 films in just a six year period, Alice White made only a dozen more films after1934. Her final film appearance was in Flamingo Road (1949).

“I never look back,” Alice said in a 1958 interview. “The past is the past. I never saved a clipping when I was a star.”

Alice White died in Hollywood on February 19, 1983 at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke  She left no survivors.

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Baltimore, MD,  Sept. 24 – KALINE GETS HIT NO. 3,000 — Al Kaline swings at the first pitch in the fourth inning and lashes a double to right field for the 3,000th hit of his major league career. The hit came off Baltimore pitcher Dave McNally and enabled Kaline to become the 12th player in major league history to reach the 3,000 hit plateau. He was the first American Leaguer to reach that mark since 1925. credit AP Wirephoto, September 29, 1974

In August 1974 Kaline told San Francisco Examiner sports editor Roger Williams of his goal. “If I get my 3,000 hits, I’ll definitely quit after this season.”

But what if he did not get to 3,000 he was asked.

“I’ll come back next year,” Kaline said. “If I only have five or six hits to go, I would hope that I could become a player-coach. However if the manager felt I was still able to help the club with my hitting I would play out the season.”

The news slug does not mention the Tigers lost the game 5-4  to the Orioles. The slug also fails to identify who the last American League player was to attain 3,000 hits before Kaline. In 1925 on May 17, Tris Speaker and on June 3, Eddie Collins each got their 3,000th career hit.

At age 39 Kaline had a productive 1974 playing 147 games, hitting .262 with 13 home runs and a team leading 64 RBI’s. But the Detroit Tigers finished in the basement of the A.L. East with a 72-90 record.

3,000 Hits, Minus One Home Run

One strange footnote about Kaline’s statistics. Kaline finished his career with 399 home runs and 3,007 hits at the end of the 1974 season. If Kaline had stuck around to hit one more home run he would have become the first player in American League history to have 400 home runs and 3,000 hits.

There was one Kaline home run wiped from the record book.

With Detroit playing at home on June 1, 1958, Kaline hit a home run in the second inning off of White Sox pitcher Ray Moore. But in the bottom half of the fourth inning, heavy rain began and after a 56 minute delay umpire Bill Summers called the game off.  Just one more half inning and the game would have become official and Kaline would have had 400 home runs in his career.

Instead Carl Yastzemski became the first A.L. player to achieve the feat when he collected both his 3,000 hit and 400th home run in 1979. National League players, Stan Musial, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays had all reached the 400 / 3,000 mark in the 1960s.

There are now 33 players with 3,000 or more base hits. Miguel Cabrera, in 2022, was the most recent player to reach the 3,000 mark.

Al Kaline was elected in 1980 to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first eligible year for induction. He became only the tenth player in Hall of Fame history to receive that honor.

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NOT FOR GROWNUPS
New York; – Pat Powell, an airline passenger service representative, tries to take a ride on “Shorty,” the world’s smallest horse, who is enroute from London to Atlanta, GA., where he will go on exhibition at a children’s playground. “Shorty” weighs 59 pounds and is just 30 inches long, although he is full grown. Credit: United Press 3/26/1953

Shorty, the two-year-old, fully ground stallion was 7 hands high (28 inches) and was purchased for $500.

Virginia Hyde & Thistle May 23, 1966 credit: Montreal Gazette

After this newswire photo, not much was written about Shorty or his popularity with Atlanta’s children.

It should come as no surprise that many would claim the unofficial title of world’s smallest horse. During the early part of 20th century there was; “Tiny,” “Lulu,” “Wild Fire,” and many other diminutive equines who were exhibited at carnivals and circuses.

The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes that Thumbelina was the world’s shortest / smallest horse. But, at 55 pounds and four hands high, (16 inches) Thistle seen at right with her handler Virginia Hyde in 1966, was smaller than Thumbelina by an inch.

In the 19th century there was a 13 inch tall horse named “Dot.”

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While paging through the New York Evening World of October 4, 1894 this portrait and blurb stood out. This is Louis Philippe Robert d’Orléans.

The fact that Louis (born 1869) is described as having a reputation as a “gay boy” does not translate today the same as it did in 1894.

The gay here refers to happy, merry or jovial, not a homosexual.

As far as the mention of “will be King of France – some day – may be,” has to do with the the line of royal succession. It’s all academic because the First French Republic abolished the position of “King” in 1792, though France has had other monarchs.

King Louis XVI, wife Marie Antoinette and their children were executed during the French Revolution in 1792.

Therein lies the  complicated history of who would be the successor to the French throne. Eventually three “houses” or families claim the right of succession. The Bourbons; the Orleans; and the Bonapartes all are pretenders to the throne which no longer exists.

This lack of clarity as to succession is where the title of “Duc D’Orleans” originates from.

The Bourbon-Orleans line produced Louis Philippe I, and he became “King of the French” in 1830. Louis Philippe I abdicated in 1848.

But supporters of this line of the Orleans monarchy bestowed the honorary title of Duc D’Orleans upon the eldest son of his direct descendant. The King’s son, Louis Philippe Albert d’Orléans mentioned in the blurb as “the Comte de Paris” (a.k.a. the Duc D’Orleans) died in 1894 without becoming King.

Of course his son, “gay boy” Louis Philippe Robert d’Orléans never became King either. He died in 1926.

Here is a summary of Orleanist and other pretenders to the throne of France.

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Raschi’s Arm Dims Yankees Hope
Chicago: Vic Raschi (r), New York Yankees’ 20 game winner and Yank manager Casey Stengel look melancholy today at the game with the White Sox. The arm trouble which took Raschi out of last night’s game, which the Yanks lost 4-3, may result in a knockout blow to the New Yorkers’ pennant hopes. photo Acme 9/20/1950

The news slug comments on Raschi’s arm trouble, yet in that 4-3 loss which Raschi did not figure in, he allowed only six hits and two runs over six innings.

On September 19, the Yankees held a half game lead over both the Red Sox and the Tigers for first place. Until playoffs came about in 1969, only each league’s winner would advance to the World Series.

But, Raschi would pitch again on September 24, winning his 21st game of the year against the Red Sox. On September 28 Raschi went eight and a third innings against the Philadelphia Athletics with the Yankees winning in ten innings. The Yankees 98-56 final record beat out the Detroit Tigers by three games to win the pennant.  Though Raschi had allowed five and six runs respectively in those previous two games, he was ready for World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Raschi would take the mound for game one. The Yankees scored one run on a Jerry Coleman sacrifice fly in the fourth inning and that was enough for Raschi, who pitched a complete game shutout allowing just two hits and a walk.

The Yankees swept the Phillies in the Series.

As far as Raschi’s career, World War II would delay his entry to the majors. Raschi was already 27-years-old in his debut season of 1946. From 1949-1951 Raschi won 21 games each season.  He finished his career at age 36 in 1955 with a 132-66 record.  His .667 winning percentage is tied for the 18th best all time.

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