The most extensive record of two players who played high school baseball together and then were teammates in the major leagues would be Tim McCarver and Phil Gagliano, who were in the same class at Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, then played together with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years in the 1960s. (Not counting players who were brothers.)
Note: Garagiola is not in the Hall of Fame as a player.)
In 1953 the Anheuser-Busch brewery bought the St. Louis Cardinals and August “Gussie” Busch became team president, spurring the St. Louis Browns’ departure in 1953 to become the Baltimore Orioles, making the Cardinals the only major league club in the city of St. Louis. An investment group led by William DeWitt, Jr. bought the team from Anheuser-Busch in 1996.
The St. Louis Browns appeared in only one World Series, in 1944. They lost to the St. Louis Cardinals and all games were played at Sportsman’s Park. It marked only the third time in World Series history in which both teams had the same home field. The other two were the 1921 and 1922 World Series in the Polo Grounds in New York City when Giants beat the Yankees in back-to-back World Series.
The success of the St. Louis Browns in 1944 is largely due to the fact that all young physically fit players had gone off to war, and the Browns were left somewhat intact. They had 16 players over the age of 30. In fact, 1n 1945, the Browns had a one-armed outfielder named Pete Gray who played 77 games and batted .218, including 8 extra-base hits.
The Cleveland Browns were named for their first general manager and coach, Paul Brown. Brown resisted the honor, but a fan poll chose it (after another name, the Cleveland Panthers, had to be dropped due to trademark claims by the owner of a previous short-lived team in the city) and eventually Brown bowed to public sentiment.
Brownies, originally called Rosebuds, were first organized by Lord Baden-Powell in 1914, to complete the range of age groups for girls in Scouting. They were first run as the youngest group in the Guide Association by Agnes Baden-Powell, Lord Baden-Powell’s younger sister. In 1918 his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, took over the responsibility for the Girl Guides and thus for Brownies.
Originally the girls were called Rosebuds, but were renamed by Lord Baden-Powell after the girls had complained that they didn’t like their name. Their name comes from the story “The Brownies” by Juliana Horatia Ewing, written in 1870. In the story two children, Tommy and Betty, learn that children can be helpful Brownies or lazy boggarts
The Victoria Rosebuds competed in the Double-A Texas League for three years, winning the league championship in 1959. With a population of only 30,000, Victoria fielded a team that competed in a league that included Houston and Dallas, before those markets were admitted to the major leagues.
Victoria’s Secret is an American designer, manufacturer and marketer of women’s lingerie and beauty products. The company’s first store was located in Palo Alto, California and opened in 1977; there are now over 1,000 stores in the United States.
Victoria is the only city name that occurs in Canada, Mexico, and the USA. Only the Canadian one is named after Queen Victoria. The ones in Mexico and Texas were named for Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico. Victoria Texas was still in Mexico when it was founded and so named.
According to Wikipedia there are 13 Victorias in the United States, 10 of which lie east of the Mississippi. The closest Victoria to San Francisco is, by about 200 miles over the one in TX, the one in KS. The one in MN is about 100 miles farther than the one in TX. Those are the only ones that lie west of the Mississippi.
Victoria Woodhull was the first female candidate for President. She ran for the office in 1872, 136 years before Hillary Clinton’s first run in 2008. Woodhull, who died nearly twenty years before Clinton was even born, made her attempt almost 50 years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 gave women the right to vote. She campaigned on a platform of women’s suffrage, regulation of monopolies, nationalization of railroads, an eight-hour workday, direct taxation, abolition of the death penalty and welfare for the poor, among other things.
On Election Day, November 5, 1872, Victoria Woodhull couldn’t even vote for herself; votes for her were apparently not counted, but at least one man said that he voted for her.
The Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls NY tells the story of the first Women’s Rights Convention held on July 19-20, 1848.
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary. Although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century.
Denis Diderot, who co-wrote the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts) with Jean le Rond d’Alembert, opined that “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
Wikipedia lists 52 towns in France named Saint-Denis, named after the patron saint of Paris. One of them is the capital of the overseas department of Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean.
The title of the Paul Simon song, Mother and Child Reunion, was inspired by a dish on a menu from a Chinese restaurant, which featured chicken and eggs together.
The “Eight Culinary Cuisines” of China are Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Szechuan, and Zhejiang cuisines.
the United Arab Emirates is made up of eight emirates, which united to form a single nation. They were Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Funeira, Umm mal Qiwain, Ras al Khaima and Kaiba. But Kaiba united with Sharjah 18 years before the 1971 union.
Louisa May Alcott’s novels Eight Cousins and its sequel Rose in Bloom contain critiques of what she regarded as social evils of her day, including womens’ fashions dangerous to health, like corsets, cigar smoking, gambling and drinking. A major character dies in a a carriage accident after driving under the influence of alcohol.
People with spinal problems, such as scoliosis, or with internal injuries, may be fitted with a form of corset to immobilize and protect the torso. Artist Andy Warhol was shot in 1968 and never fully recovered; he wore a corset for the rest of his life.