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    Cheering Section: When Bojangles Came to the Yankees’ Defense

    Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:50:05

    Bill Robinson, Joe McCarthy, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Shirley Temple


    Cheering Section: When Bojangles Came to the Yankees’ Defense

    In the summer of 1938, Jake Powell, a journeyman Yankees outfielder, talked his way into trouble. During a pregame radio interview at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Powell said he spent the off-season as a police officer in Dayton, Ohio. Then, using a ...Full Story at The New York Times »

    Tags: Bill Robinson, Joe McCarthy, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Shirley Temple, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Louis Armstrong