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Alan D. Gaff joins us to discuss Baseball's First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson.Buy Baseball's First SuperstarThe Twin Bill Lit JournalThe Twin Bill InstagramThe Twin Bill TwitterSupport the PodcastBuy Early InningsBuy Short ReliefHosted by Scott BolohanMusic by Mark Bolohan
What You Need to Know is Donald Trump thinks outside the box. There's a huge hunger for solutions to our nation's problems, and those solutions just aren't coming from the usual places. Trump is getting headlines (objections from Big Media) over his unusual suggestions, but maybe it's time for outside the box. From tariffs to bombing the cartels and beyond, Trump is always reliable to think outside the normal categories and get earned media off of it. Ronald Kessler, investigative reporter and author, talks about his latest opinion piece — Blame Legalized Marijuana for Increased Mass Shootings. Ron also discusses being ahead of his time in his writing of The Secrets of the FBI. He has a lot to say about the era of Jim Comey and Christopher Wray. Be sure to visit his website RonaldKessler.com. Alan D. Gaff, historian, author, and President of Historical Investigations, talks us through his new book Field of Corpses: Arthur St. Clair and the Death of an American Army. All too often, Gaff says, American history skips from the War for Independence straight to the War of 1812, but a lot of vital history happened in between! Find all of his books and work at AlanDGaff.com. Wrap Up: Last week's coverage of Trump's arrest and subsequent public comments prove that Trump is more popular than ever. Every network got major bumps from their coverage of Trump's every moment. They know where the money and ratings are. The problem for them is Trump knows how to harness their negative coverage into positive energy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What You Need to Know is they're hiding massive wealth transfer corruption! The gross and faulty indictment of President Trump is sucking the wind out of another story that you need to know! The Inflation Reduction Act boondoggle has been a massive giveaway to special interests. $793 billion has been spread around and over $300 billion is being administered out of the White House by John Podesta! It's absolutely unbelievable. Even Democrats are mad. Ronald Kessler, investigative reporter and author, talks about his latest opinion piece — Blame Legalized Marijuana for Increased Mass Shootings. Ron also discusses being ahead of his time in his writing of The Secrets of the FBI. He has a lot to say about the era of Jim Comey and Christopher Wray. Be sure to visit his website RonaldKessler.com. Alan D. Gaff, historian, author, and President of Historical Investigations, talks us through his new book Field of Corpses: Arthur St. Clair and the Death of an American Army. All too often, Gaff says, American history skips from the War for Independence straight to the War of 1812, but a lot of vital history happened in between! Find all of his books and work at AlanDGaff.com. Wrap Up: A wrap up on UCONN's NCAA victory and reflections on coach Danny Hurley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Links from the show:* Field of Corpses: Arthur St. Clair and the Death of an American Army* Connect with Al* Watch Al on YoutubeBook blurb:From Alan Gaff, author of the highly acclaimed Bayonets in the Wilderness, comes the real story of this stunning defeat against the Native American nations in the Northwest Territory. In three hours on the morning of November 4, 1791, General Arthur St. Clair lost one half of his soldiers as well as his reputation.November 4, 1791, was a black day in American history. General Arthur St. Clair's army had been ambushed by Native Americans in what is now western Ohio. In just three hours, St. Clair's force sustained the greatest loss ever inflicted on the United States Army by Native Americans—a total nearly three times larger than what incurred in the more famous Custer fight of 1876. It was the greatest proportional loss by any American army in the nation's history. By the time this fighting ended, over six hundred corpses littered an area of about three and one half football fields laid end to end. Still more bodies were strewn along the primitive road used by hundreds of survivors as they ran for their lives with Native Americans in hot pursuit. It was a disaster of cataclysmic proportions for George Washington's first administration, which had been in office for only two years.About my guest:I'm Alan D. Gaff, author and President of Historical Investigations, a company specializing in historical research. With over 40 years experience in American history, I've published on everything from the Civil War to Damon Runyon. When not working jigsaw puzzles and listening to music with Maureen, my wife of 50 years, we enjoy watching deer and birds in our backyard. I like reading a good book until 3 a.m., a cold Diet Coke, and watching Indianapolis Colts football.With a Master's Degree in American History from Ball State University, my books have won Awards of Merit from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, a University Press Best Seller, and finalist for both the Distinguished Writing Award Army Historical Foundation and New Mexico and Arizona Book Award in Biography. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe
Sportsnet analyst and MLB insider Shi Davidi sits down with us to discuss the early returns on the Blue Jays and the rest of the AL East. Then author of "Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir" Alan D. Gaff joins us to talk about the Yankees legend and his new book. Finally, Alex Lenschau talks about the controversy regarding Nike's latest maternity wear ads, and what she discovered in speaking with some of the Olympians at the heart of the issue.
Alan D. Gaff tells Lou Gehrig's story through forgotten newspaper columns. Nancy Frates, co-creator of the ALS ice bucket challenge, explains how the movement took off and explains what researchers are doing with the more than $100 million they raised.
At the tender age of twenty-four, Lou Gehrig decided to tell the remarkable story of his life and career. He was one of the most famous athletes in the country, in the midst of a record-breaking season with the legendary 1927 World Series-winning Yankees. In an effort to grow Lou’s star, pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou’s tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers across the country. Until now, those columns were largely forgotten and lost to history. Lou comes alive in this inspiring memoir. It is a heartfelt rags-to-riches tale about a dirt poor kid from New York who became one of the most revered baseball players of all time. Fourteen years after his account, Lou would tragically die from ALS, a neuromuscular disorder now known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. His poignant autobiography is followed by an insightful biographical essay by historian Alan D. Gaff. Here is Lou—Hall of Famer, All Star, and MVP—back at bat. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alan D. Gaff is an independent scholar and the author of many books, including Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, Bayonets in the Wilderness, Blood in the Argonne, and On Many a Bloody Field, hailed as “a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship” (The Bookwatch). He lives in Indiana. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support
May 18, 2020 - In an iconic, ad-libbed moment at the old Yankee Stadium, a terminally ill baseball player declared himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." A decade earlier, he'd sat down to write the remarkable story of his career in newspaper columns that remained buried for almost a century -- until now. In Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, we meet Major League Baseball's most triumphant and tragic slugger as a young man with a great career in front of him. He had no way of knowing that one day, that career would be cut short by ALS, or that the disease would one day bear his name. Alan D. Gaff brings us this treasure trove of writings that flesh out our picture of No. 4, the man they called the Iron Horse. Mr. Gaff is a veteran, best-selling author of books on the American Civil War, and president of Historical Investigations. Visit our guest at AlanDGaff.com or @AlanDGaff on Twitter.
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode #450. We all know that music, and as part of our Art of Living, author interview series, our guest today is baseball writer, historian, Alan Gaff. Alan Gaff is author of the new book, The Lost Memoir of Lou Gehrig. I loved the book, and for those of us eager to have baseball back in our lives, but watching Korean Baseball Organization's brand of high energy baseball, and hoping baseball will return soon, you'll love this book, too. Lou Gehrig, one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived, is so much more than the horrible disease that killed him. The first half of this book is told by Lou Gehrig in his own words through articles he wrote during his championship season in New York City. To be able to read Gehrig's words describing his entrance into professional baseball was priceless. I'll offer my thanks to our guest today, Alan D. Gaff, right now for collecting these forgotten newspaper columns. That, of course, is our guest today, Alan Gaff reading from his new book, Lou Gehrig, The Lost Memoir. And we heard the famous farewell speech by Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium, a baseball legend. Scott Boras, an attorney for baseball players, wrote a recent editorial in The NY Times, in which he said so eloquently, “In some of America's darkest moments, the country has turned to Major League Baseball to bring hope and normalcy back to everyday life. It is time again for baseball to serve. The millions of baseball fans in America can continue to do a small part for the nation by staying at home while enjoying a sense of hope and normalcy and watching the game we love.” In the meantime, we can enjoy Alan Gaff's new book, The Lost Memoir of Lou Gehrig. Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show via internet phone, author Alan Gaff. Please check out Alan Gaff's new book: https://books.apple.com/us/book/lou-gehrig/id1469990758
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