25 Years Ago
25 Years Ago
25 years ago... 1934 World Series: Detroit Tigers at St. Louis Cardinals. Such immortal diamond figures as Frankie Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, Dizzy Dean, and Ducky-Wucky Medwick. The two managers chat before game. Baseball game highlights. #12 Ripper Collins scores, sliding into home plate. #7 Joe "Ducky" Medwick gets a hit - looks like a home run. Notable spectators watching one of the most spectacular of all World Series include Henry and Edsel Ford, Will Rogers, and Judge Landis. Spectators throw litter on the field. An anti-gambling campaign is launched by New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who personally smashes the first of 1200 slot machines. The mayor takes a sledgehammer to one of the machines. Men toss slot machines from barge into water. Automotive progress notes: Inventions featured a steam-powered truck (man loads coal into it as fuel) and a collision-proof car that performs as predicted but proves a little too rugged for the people inside! "Collision-proof" automobile travels fast over very rough terrain.