Blow Out the Candles September 5

Cleveland great, second baseman Napolean Lajoie was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island on this date in 1874.

1911 T201 Mecca Double Folders

I inherited the card above from my Dad along with a small group of other cigarette cards all of which I treasure. (The white mark by Nap's right leg must have been of the scanner.)

Nap had a lifetime batting average of .339 and 3252 hits. He was inducted into the HOF's second class in 1937.
From Line-up for Yesterday by Ogden Nash:

L is for Lajoie
Whom Clevelanders love,
Napolean himself,
With glue in his glove.

 Nap and Honus Wagner

Hall of Fame Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski is celebrating his 76th birthday today.

One of the greatest moments in World Series history:

Career highlights and awards
10× All-Star (1958, 1959, 1959², 1960, 1960², 1962,1962², 1963, 1964, 1967)
2× World Series champion (1960, 1971)
8× Gold Glove Award winner (1958, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967)
1960 Babe Ruth Award
Pittsburgh Pirates #9 retired

With Mom after the 1960 World Series 

Comedian and actor, Bob Newhart is celebrating his 84th birthday today.

I have these two LP's as well as a couple others 

The Bob Newhart Show

Giving an Emmy to Tina Fey

Me too, Bob!

Best Friends

The Newhart statue on Navy Pier in Chicago

Blow Out the Candles September 4

Golfer Tom Watson is celebrating his 63rd birthday today.

Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 39 (tied 11th all time)
Japan Golf Tour 4
Champions Tour 14
Best results in Major Championships
(Wins: 8)
Masters Tournament Won: 1977, 1981
U.S. Open Won: 1982
The Open Championship Won: 1975, 1977, 1980,1982, 1983
PGA Championship 2nd: 1978
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame 1988
PGA Tour
leading money winner 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984
PGA Player of the Year 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984
Vardon Trophy 1977, 1978, 1979
Bob Jones Award 1987
Old Tom Morris Award 1992
Payne Stewart Award 2003

Actor Dick York was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on this date in 1928.

Dick is best know for his role as Darrin Stephens on "Bewitched".

Blow Out the Candles September 3

Softball star, Olympic Gold Medalist Jennie Finch is celebrating her 32nd birthday today.

 2006 Allen & Ginter's #303

Chicago Black Hawks Hall of Famer Doug Bentley was born in Delisle, Saskatchewan on this date in 1916.

"The Pony Line" 1945-46

Actress Valerie Perrine is celebrating her 69th birthday today.

 Valerie in in Bruce Jay Friedman's, "Steambath" on PBS.  I saw this in Chicago as an adolescent.  Good stuff!  In many ways.

 Superman (duh!)

As Honey Bruce in "Lenny"

Founding member of The Beach Boys , Al Jardine is celebrating his 70th birthday today.

Architect Louis Sullivan was born in Boston Massachusetts on this date in 1856.

If you're from Chicago or have walked around in the loop area you've probably seen the entrance to Carson Pirie Scott on State and Madison.

Here's the Wainwright building in St. Louis, Missouri.

Merchants National Bank in Grinnell, IA

Song for a Sunday Night

Check out the first verse of this song.  Perfect! I really love everything about this song.

Year of the Cat

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat