You can't say that he didn't know how to repeatedly launch projectiles on ballistic trajectories.
Yes, that's the Bambino saluting General Pershing. From
Shorpy's:
NEW YORK. May 20, 1924. — Babe Ruth, star slugger of the Yankees, is a soldier now — a buck private. He joined the National Guard of New York today, enlisting with the 104th field artillery for three years. He was sworn in as he stood atop a gun carriage in Times Square. Police reserves had to be called to handle the crowds. The Babe's enlistment was in response to a National Guard membership drive.
I agree with the other commenter:
How many of the self centered millionaire professional athletes of today would even consider enlisting in the Reserves today ?Don't hold your breath.
Babe Ruth was paid $52,000 by the Yankees in 1924 - the average working man made around $1,200 that year. He hit .378 with 46 home runs that year.
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damn few:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman
I think he was also the first left-handed pitcher to win a World Series game.
Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson also served in WWI, working with poison gas. Mathewson was the victim of a gas accident and developed tuberculosis, which ended his career and later, his life.
Pat Tillman is an athlete I respect, and I usually do not respect athletes because they usually do little worthy of respect.
It stinks that Tillman was killed by friendly fire ...
I like your blog because you deal with weapons and internet security, which means you have likely used some of my code that is in Ethereal/Wireshark ...
You are welcome.
Yeah, my grandfather was gassed in WWI.
He returned to his country of birth and made it to about 1950. He had 6 children, but my mother, one of his daughters, made a mistake ... choosing the wrong father for me was to reduce her lifespan considerably.
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