Hello from Rochester, NY
Did You Know…. (2023 Edition):
♦ Former Red Wing Jeff Tackett, hit a home run in his last major
league at-bat.
♦ Billie Holiday Was Billy Crystal's Babysitter.
♦ Metallica is the first and only band to have played on all seven
continents.
♦ The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in
four states at once: Utah,
Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
♦ Dolly Parton once entered a drag queen celebrity impersonator
contest AS HERSELF and lost.
♦ In 1941, Gladys Gooding became baseball's first organist as she
played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
♦ In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
who has a speaking role.
♦ Canada is south of Detroit (just look at a map).
♦ Jack Norworth, who wrote "Take Me Out To The Ballgame," never
attended a game.
♦ Denny McLain, the last 30 game winner in the major leagues, was a
featured performer in Las
Vegas as an organist.
♦ Elvis Presley played 636 consecutive shows in Las Vegas over an
eight-year period (1969-1976).
He played two shows per evening
every day of the week. Each show sold out.
♦ Barry Manilow didn't write his hit song, "I Write The Songs."
♦ Taylor Swift was actually named after legendary singer-songwriter
James Taylor.
♦ Ralph Kiner of the Pirates won the home run championship seven
years in a row.
♦ On August 17, 1957, Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies hit
spectator Alice Roth with a foul
ball, breaking her nose. As Alice was
being carried off the field on a stretcher, Ashburn hit her with
another
foul ball, injuring her knee.
♦ One in five country music songs refer to alcohol, one in three to tears
and one in seven to "mama."
♦ I have played the organ for 3,311 Red Wing's baseball games since
1977.
Quote Of The Month: “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something."-- Jackie Mason
Bye for now...
Fred
CALENDAR
This page was last updated on 2/4/2023.
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NOW AVAILABLE
"Fred Costello - Anthology" CD $15.00 (includes shipping)
"Blues Backstage" CD $15.00 (includes shipping)
"A Lifetime Of Nightclubs & Ballparks" Book $ 20.00 (includes shipping)