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[Jacob Ruppert & Walter Johnson, Washington AL (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    Jacob Ruppert
    - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Ruppert
    "Jacob Ruppert Jr. (August 5, 1867 – January 13, 1939) was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and politician who served for four terms representing New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1907. He also owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1915 until his death in 1939."
    - baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/ruppert-jacob
  • swanq said:
    Walter Johnson
    - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Johnson
    "Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "Barney" and "the Big Train", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Senators (aka Nationals for some periods) from 1907 to 1927."
    - baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/johnson-walter
  • swanq said:
    According to the [Washington] Evening Star. April 14, 1925, Page 30
    - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1925-04-14/ed-...
    The opening day of the American League season saw the Washington Nationals playing the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
  • swanq said:
    See photo of Johnson with President Warren Harding from 1923 in LoC's Bain stream
    Yanks' Leslie A. (Bullet Joe) Bush - Pres. Harding - Senator's Walter Johnson, 4/24/23 (LOC)

    In 1924, the Senators had won the World Series in extra innings. A few years ago a silent movie reel including coverage of the game, in which Walter Johnson pitched the last 4 innings, was discovered. President Calvin Coolidge was present. See
    - blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2014/10/film-of-the-washington...
    for the story of the discovery and the digitally preserved movie, with new accompaniment.

Mrs. Frances W. Munds (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    Frances Lillian Willard Munds (1866-1948) www.lib.az.us/awhof/women/munds.aspx She won election in the fall of 1914 to the Arizona Senate.
  • Anne (LOC P&P) said:
    swanq: Thanks for more information about Munds. We'll include it next time we update the description.

[Alva "Rip" Williams, Washington AL (baseball)] (LOC)

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  • Art Siegel said:
    "Alva Mitchell Williams [Rip] (January 31, 1882 – July 23, 1933) was a reserve infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a catcher or first baseman for three different teams between the 1911 and 1918 seasons." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Williams