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[Nick Altrock & Al Schacht (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Art Siegel said:

  Nick Altrock & Al Schacht had a baseball comedy act that they put on to warm up the Polo Grounds crowd before Game 2 of the 1922 World Series, on October 5, 1922: "Play-by-Play Account of Yankees-Giants Tie Contest By Joseph Val Nick Altrock and AI Schacht, world's series comedians extraordinary, held the center of the stage at the Polo Grounds yesterday throughout the early afternoon and up to the very minute when play began. In fact, the comedians outdid themselves to such an extent that the voice of the an- nouncer could hardly be heard when the batteries were made known. Altrock and Schacht carried the house with their final act, a slow-mo- tion pitching and batting feature, which was absolutely the best trick in their repertoire. The fans simply roared in glee, and depended on their eyesight, or the scoreboard, to dis- cover that Bob Shawkey was the Yan- kees' pitching selection and Jess Barnes was to toss them up for the Giants." New York Tribune, October 06, 1922 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-10-06/ed-...

• Art Siegel said:

  An interesting article about Al Schacht and the comedy duo: sabr.org/bioproj/person/al-schacht/

• Art Siegel said:

  LOC, the photo seems properly dated based on the caption card in the Notes above, but misdated as 1923 above that. Please check with the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research.

• Melissa (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for the details and correction, Art Siegel .

• Art Siegel said:

  Melissa (LOC P&P) You're welcome. I see that it is still identified above as 1923, thoug

Josie's Declaration of Independence (cinema 1914)

from New York Public Library

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Josie Sadler (c. 1871-1927) www.imdb.com/name/nm0755545/ Billy Quirk (1873-1926) www.imdb.com/name/nm0704334/

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  I made a purse from this image:

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  And now I've done it in chalk art too... ;)

• Bun Karyudo said:

  Great picture! I used it to illustrate a short, humorous post about politics on my twice weekly bunkaryudo.com blog.

[Portrait of Imogene Coca, Café Society (Downtown)(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1947] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogene_Coca

• Judy said:

  Just terrific!! I spotted her immediately from the thumbnails when I did a "portraits" search.