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Well, it took me close to a month to do so, but I finally found the copy of Herald Tribune front page newspaper from Buzzy’s birthday October 11th in 1924. Somewhere in his travels Buzzy either purchased this newspaper copy or more likely someone gave it to him. He had it stashed with his old newspaper collection in the Store.
I had come across it some time ago and remember putting it somewhere so that I could blog about it around his birthday and in conjunction with the Nationals making the World Series. But as much as I looked for the paper, I simply could not find it and had given up looking for it.
However, yesterday morning I moved my laptop to clean around it and there was the paper right where I had stashed it some time ago. The fact that the headlines read “Senators Win Title…” is what made me want to dig it out and show it off here on the Buzzyblog.
Speaking of Presidents attending World Series, (I know I wasn’t but our President-Lock-Him-Up was there last night) President Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace attended 3 of the 4 home games that the 1924 Senators played in D.C.. They were on hand for the dramatic 7th game that the Nats won in extra innings. (Turns out that Coolidge was not that great a baseball fan and went to the games mostly for political reasons. However, his wife Grace was a big supporter of the team (click here.) Now, 95 years hence, today’s Nats could also use something alone the lines of “Amazing Grace” to get past the kick ass Astros. Maybe Melania should go to games 6 and 7 and bring ’em some luck.
