Monday: 28 September 2009

Babe Ruth. On this Day-

He made friends by the thousands and rarely, if ever, lost any of them. Affable, boisterous and good-natured to a fault, he was always as accessible to the newsboy on the corner as to the most dignified personage in worldly affairs. More, he could be very much at each with both. "He could scarcely recall a name, even of certain intimates with whom he frequently came in contact, but this at no time interfered with the sincerity of his greeting. Indeed, by a singular display of craft, he overcame this slight deficiency with consummate skill. If you looked under 40 it was "Hello, kid, how are you?" And if you appeared above that line of demarcation it was "Hello, doc, how's everything going?" Murray Schumach- NY Times- August 17, 1948

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Now Batting:# 12 Jose' Mendez.

The earliest photographic evidence of the use of uniform numbers comes from a 1909 Chicago Daily News picture of pitching great José Mendez. A legendary Cuban ballplayer, Mendez was a member of the inaugural class of the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006. In the photograph, Mendez is seen in his Cuban Stars uniform with a number '12' on his left sleeve.
Click here > for more of numbers trivia. Top: Jose' Mendez of the Cuban Stars, 1909 (Chicago Daily News negatives collection, SDN-007852. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.)

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