Does it have anything to do with the nickname “Murderer’s Row”?
Not at all
Nope.
Did they all go on a streak at the same time, with each one breaking each other’s records?
Not that complicated
Did they all play in his first game of the streak and last game?
Did they bat consecutively?
I think I kind of asked this…but maybe not.
50% right. But which 50%?
And then the question of why those 3 and not all 9 players?
Nope.
We were told earlier that they didn’t retire after the same game. But from the opposite direction, did they all make their MLB debut in the same game?
Did they start their pro baseball careers together? Did they start playing for the Yankees together?
Very close. I don’t know if it was their debut but it was a start.
And with that I think this has been teased out enough.
On June 2, 1925, manager Miller Huggins decided his team needed a shake up to get them out of their funk. He decided to replace three established starter with three bench players for the game. Benny Bengough replaced Wally Schang at catcher, Howie Shanks replaced Aaron Ward at second and Lou Gehrig replaced Wally Pipp at first. Since Gehrig had pinch hit for Pipp in the previous game it was the 2nd game in his streak but his first start as the Iron Horse.
We all hear the story of how Gehrig replaced Pipp because of a headache but it was more than that. Huggins pointed to those three players and said we need to change things up so you guys start today. And that is what started The Streak.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense.
I looked up the players:
Benny was a young catcher, about the same age as Gehrig, and played his whole career as a Yankee, while Howie was at the tail end of his career, and only played that one year in pinstripes before retiring.
Why did Amazon misrepresent a classic work of literature as being about butts?
(Note: This has proven surprisingly hard to check, since googling “Amazon” and the book’s title just brings up the actual book for sale. So enjoy this half-remembered maybe-apocryphal rumor, I guess.)
Butt as in:
- buttocks?
- cigar stubs?
- barrels?
- something else?
Butt as in your rear end.
Does the title simply involve a word for ‘butt’ — like, say, HOWARDS END, or maybe THE GOLDEN ASS?
The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumbass
Did it have anything to do with Chuck Tingle?
Sometimes weasely, small-time “writers” use book titles and/or pen names that look remarkably similar to well-known writers or books to take advantage of readers who don’t know, or don’t notice, the difference between, for example, Stephen King and Steven King. Is it anything in that general category?