Dodgers Turn Back Pirates; Giants Bow; Yanks Triumph, Gain Second Place (6/11/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/11/41 | Louis Effrat, James P. Dawson, Arthur Daley

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Squeeze Play Wins for Brooklyn, 4-3 – 2
Reds Top Braves, Advance to Third – 2
Tigers’ 2 in Ninth Stop Athletics, 4-3 – 2
Warneke Subdues Phils with One Hit – 3
Crosetti Gets Grand-Slam Homer as White Sox are Downed, 8 to 3 * – 3
Feller Takes 13th for Indians, 4 to 1 – 3
Giants Drop to Fourth in Race as Result of 11-0 Loss to Cubs – 5
Major League Leaders – 5
Today’s Probable Pitchers – 5
Major League Baseball Standings – 5

* DiMaggio’s consecutive-game hitting streak now totals twenty-five, a new season’s high for the American League and four short of the twenty-nine-game all-time Yankee mark held by Earle Combs and Roger Peckinpaugh.

[Red Steel]

The sports page shows Ted Williams hitting .416 on June 11th. In 1941, he will end up hitting .406 by the end of the 152 game season. Williams still is the last man to hit over .400 in the major leagues.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Williams still is the last man to hit over .400 in the major leagues.

Is this the only year he will accomplish that amazing feat? I believe he will miss some time due to military service.

[Red Steel]

Yes, and he turns into a fighter pilot. A great eye for spotting enemy planes as well as hitting the ball.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I am always amazed at the old news articles. The vocabulary used and the writing style used in the past suggests that well educated, literate, eloquent people used to write and edit these articles.

And yet, back in those days, many people didn’t even graduate high school, and far fewer young people went to college compared to today. You figure that the readers of these old newspapers mostly did NOT have a higher education, yet were reading and understanding news articles written at a higher standard than we see today.

Did most people have a better understanding of grammar and the use of language back then? Did schools do a better job of teaching such fundamentals back then, so that even high school dropouts in that era were literate?

[Pylon]

I still think Tony Gwynn would have hit .400 in 1994 if the strike hadn’t ended the season early. I believe he ended up at .394.

[P.O.E.]

That Dodgers article alone is loaded with a look at how different the game is now.

Leo Durocher putting himself into the game, “politically incorrect” nicknames (seems like everyone had a nick back then), and an infield with pep & “holler”.