THE IRON MAN OF BASEBALL --- LOU GEHRIG, 1903 to 1941.
A. Lou Gehrig played first base from 1925 to 1939, 15 years for the New York Yankees.
Lou played first base. He had a lifetime batting average of .340, he hit 493 home runs.
Lou Gehrig had home runs in seven world series games.
B. Lou played
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on Feb 14, 2005
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Two friends who happened to be avid fishermen met up at the casino the other day. Of course, the first thing they started doing was to swap fish stories. The one man said he had caught a fish up at the lake that weighed 400 pounds.
The other man, not to be outdone, said he had gone fishing
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These sobering statistics show how alcohol affects the world of a child they are from http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/
Alcohol is the #1 drug of choice among our Nation’s youth.1
Research indicates that adolescents who abuse alcohol may remember 10% less of what they have learned than
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 25, 2006
ILLUSTRATION... http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/5058592/detail.html
I think that Israel’s issue was the same as olympian Lindsey Jacobellis. First-time Olympian Lindsey Jacobellis of the U.S. distinguished herself as the top women’s rider in snowboard cross over the past two seasons. And she
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Contributed by David Rogers on Aug 1, 2006
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After the U.S.S. Pueblo was captured by the North Koreans, the eighty-two surviving crew members were thrown into a brutal captivity. In one particular instance thirteen of the men were required to sit in a rigid manner around a table for hours. After several hours the door was violently flung
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Baptist
Contributed by Floyd Johnson on Nov 29, 2006
(Ill.) It is a very special glue – not like those we have available to us:
1.There is a very simple glue that holds the little plastic toys that can be thrown against the wall. It sticks, but comes off so easy.
2.Then there is rubber cement – it holds papers together, but allows them to be taken
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Methodist
Contributed by John Perry on Jan 1, 2011
MAKE SURE THE CAPTAIN IS ON BOARD
A young naval officer was undergoing his first sea training on board a naval ship. His responsibility was to safely steer the ship away from the wharf and set it on course for a voyage out to sea. He carefully went through all the procedures of disembarking the
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Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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BASEBALL IN HEAVEN
A preacher and a song leader were both avid baseball fans. These guys didn't just like baseball; they lived, breathed and ate baseball. What time they weren't about church duties, they were attending a game, watching a game on the tube, or coaching a little league game in the
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MSNBC reported on an archaeological dig in Cana, Israel in 2004. The article read: “Among the roots of ancient olive trees, archaeologists have found pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine at a Jewish wedding in the Galilee village of
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Methodist
Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Nov 29, 2007
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Several years ago in Chicago, Joseph Kratzle, a service elevator operator in an apartment house, recovered two checks for $114,000 that had been lost by the tenant in the apartment house where he worked. His reward was a fifteen cent tip and a solicitous offer to put iodine on the cuts on his hands
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Baptist
Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
Have you ever bump or push started a car? It’s pretty exhausting especially if it doesn’t work first time. If a manual transmission car won’t start because the battery’s flat or the starter motor’s broken the driver puts the car into gear and keeps the clutch down whilst a couple of people push
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
A Friend Like Pee Wee Reese
Willie Morris says that gestures often speak more eloquently than words.
In his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play major league baseball, faced venom nearly everywhere he traveled -- fastballs were aimed at his head,
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 12, 2009
HOW THE MIGHTY FALL
The British group, The Alarm, sang about someone of great influence who had brought himself down. I remember this song because I went through a period of personal crisis after a time of career triumph. In my depression, I heard these lyrics being about me:
Once your words were
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Contributed by Charles Worth on Aug 7, 2009
SUBJECTIVE TRUTHS
The following story actually happened to me in 2005 at a state wide meeting. We had a wonderful time of fellowship the first night, a time of worship and a great message. My spirit was soaring until breakfast on the second day. As I came into the hotel dining room several of my
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Contributed by Patrick Nix on Mar 23, 2011
EDISON AND LINCOLN: PICTURES OF COMMITMENT
Look at the life of Thomas Edison. At 21, he patented his first major invention: the Electrical Vote Recorder (a device 100 years ahead of its time!). At 26, he invented the automatic telegraph and paraffin paper. At 30, the phonograph (earliest record
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IN PHILADELPHIA
My father died in a Philadelphia hospital in 1999. Some weeks before his death, I was able to spend a few days with him. I stayed at the home of some friends in Washington Crossing, just a few miles north of Philadelphia, and each day I would drive into the city.
The first morning
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Story that occurred During WW I and the British liberation of Palestine.
British were coming up from Beersheeba chasing the Turkish soilders out of the land. In the pursit, the British army outdistanced the camel train that was carrying their water.
Soon their water bottles were empty and slowly
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