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“Baseball and Thanksgiving” Photo Gallery
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- Hokey giant baseball player balloon from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Looks to be Forties or Fifties.
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- Babe Ruth at a turkey farm with boxer Jim Corbett
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- Casey Stengel with Met’s players in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, 1961
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- Babe Ruth being fed Thanksgiving dinner by a group of orphans
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- Babe Ruth bags his Thanksgiving dinner!
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- Happy Thanksgiving from Stan Musial and the Cardinals
Happy Thanksgiving From Baseball History Comes Alive!
Let’s be honest. It’s hard to find a connection between Baseball and Thanksgiving. The great American family tradition of “Turkey Day” falls in that “no man’s land” between the last pitch of the World Series and the first pitch of spring training. It’s not exactly our favorite time of the year. But somehow, we manage to make it through year after year.
So after an “exhaustive Internet search” (which actually means I put the words “Baseball” and “Thanksgiving” together in a Google search), this one of Lou Gehrig helping his mother with the Thanksgiving dinner dishes will have to do. Although I did manage to find a couple others that you can check out in the photo gallery.
Anyway…I hope you all have a great day with your families. And don’t forget to do your share today in helping out around the kitchen…just like Lou Gehrig helping out his mother, Christina.
If the great “Iron Horse” can do it, so can we! And Lou looks pretty spiffy in that bow tie, too!
So, again…
Happy Thanksgiving to all our loyal readers! Hope you all have a great day!
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Actually I learned a few years ago that Thanksgiving Day was for a long time in the 19th Century the usual anticipated end of baseball season. Plus, at the first Thanksgiving it was likelier that the celebrants played some ancestor of baseball such as stool ball than that they played any form of football, though all possibilities were in play.
The weather wasn’t always conducive to playing baseball as late as Thanksgiving, but on the other hand if there was a warm spell during the winter some games might be gotten up on short notice. It’s just that they PLANNED to play on Thanksgiving Day, and baseball was considered a good thing to do on the holiday, a good day to aspire to reopen to close on even if play had otherwise been interrupted by the cold for a bit before.
As to football, it wasn’t confined to a season until late in the 19th Century. In the British Isles the tradition for multiplayer games requiring a lot of space had been to use farm fields after the crops were off them in the fall. The precursor games to baseball didn’t require as much space, so they were more commonly played in town.