Post by chrislc on Jul 23, 2011 19:51:43 GMT -5
I began putting this list together the year Phil Rizzuto died. Some of this stuff is unbelievable.
Yankee Babe Ruth died in 1948. On August 16th.
Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto's last game was in 1956. On August 16th.
Bela Lugosi died that day. August 16th, 1956.
Bela Lugosi was most famous for having played the part of a vampire.
Like a vampire, Elvis Presley often wore black and avoided daylight.
Elvis was born in 1935.
Babe Ruth's last game was in 1935.
Elvis died in 1977.
On August 16th.
That same year, Phil Rizzuto, of all people, did something Elvis had often done.
He participated in a recording project. It was called "Bat Out Of Hell".
It was released to the public the same week Reggie Jackson tied one of Babe
Ruth's World Series records, for most home runs hit in one game.
The biggest hit from the LP was a song that alluded to "I Want You I Need You I
Love You", by Elvis.
Which was one of the most popular songs in the country the day of Phil Rizzuto's last
game, the day Bela Lugosi died, August 16th, 1956.
Yankee Mickey Mantle once wrote a book called "My Favorite Summer 1956".
Mantle broke another of Babe Ruth's World Series records, for most total home
runs.
Mantle was born in 1931.
"Dracula" starring Bela Lugosi, was released in 1931.
Mickey Mantle died on August 13th, 1995 in Dallas.
Meatloaf (Bat Out Of Hell) was born in Dallas .
The most well-known death ever in Dallas was that of a President who was shot in the
head, a President who had been a U.S. Congressman.
The actor Martin Landau's most famous movie was one in which his
character fell to his death from the "face" of the other US President to be shot
in the head.
That "face" is in South Dakota.
Another U.S. Congressman struck and killed a pedestrian in 2003 - while driving in South Dakota.
On August 16th.
The man who broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record, and once shared an
apartment with Mickey Mantle, was born in North Dakota.
The actor who played Martin Landau's co-conspirator in that movie we mentioned
was James Mason.
Two of the men who have played shortstop for the New York Yankees are Phil
Rizzuto and another man named James Mason.
Still another man named James Mason discovered gold in the Yukon in 1896,
setting off the Klond**e Gold Rush.
That discovery happened on August 16th.
The only death in a Major League baseball game occurred after a player was hit
by a pitch in 1920.
On August 16th.
The man standing in rightfield at the moment that pitch was thrown was...Babe Ruth.
Babe Ruth's career home run record was broken by Hank Aaron.
Elvis Presley's middle name was Aron.
Babe Ruth was the most famous person of the 1920s and he died on August 16th.
Elvis Presley was the most famous person of the 1950s and he died on August
16th.
The most famous female person of the 1980s is alive.
But she was born on August 16th.
The fourth member of the Beatles became a Beatle on August 16th.
The Beatles, soon to be the four most famous men in the world, released an album
showing only 1/2 of their heads on the cover of the album the same day the most
famous man in the world lost almost half of his head in Dallas.
James Mason's 2nd most well-known film dealt with his character's relationship
with an underaged girl.
Elvis Presley married a woman he began dating when he was in his 20's, while she
was only 14.
Martin Landau's character was a co-conspirator in a murder - successful - unlike
his unsuccessful attempt at murder in his most well-known film - in a movie that
was written and directed by a man who has become notorious for his involvement
with underaged girls.
The player born in North Dakota - Roger Maris - wore #9.
Bela Lugosi's 2nd most well-known film is Plan 9 From Outer Space.
The star of the movie in which Martin Landau's character fell to his death,
Cary Grant, also was the star of another movie three years later, a movie that also
featuring appearances by Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Roger Maris.
The co-star of that movie, That Touch Of Mink, was a singer who once allegedly had an
affair with a major league shortstop, whose solo singing and movie career began
the year Babe Ruth died, 1948, and whose signature song was on the charts the day
of Phil Rizzuto's last game, the day Bela Lugosi died, August 16, 1956.
That singer. Doris Day, introduced that song, Whatever Will Be Will Be, in a
movie in which her character sang the song loudly to try to prevent the murder
of her son.
That movie, and also the movie with James Mason and Martin Landau, showed
characters falling to their deaths in the scenes just before the final scenes.
A movie made by the same director of both of these movies, made between these
two movies, showed both a man and woman falling to their deaths - in the first
scene and final scene.
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and North By Northwest.
Mantle, Berra, Maris, and Rizzuto wore #s 7,8,9, and 10.
Martin Landau, in 1995, the year of Mickey Mantle's death, the year Phil Rizzuto
announced his retirement from broadcasting, won an Academy Award.
For playing the part of Bela Lugosi.
The movie for which he won that award starred an actor named John who has become most famous playing a pirate.
The Pirates allowed Babe Ruth's final home run.
The Academy Award winning movie often cited as the greatest film ever made was
based on the life of a man whose first two names were William Randolph.
One of the men who played second base next to Yankee shortstop James Mason was named William Randolph.
Martin Landau was born in 1931, like Mickey Mantle, and in Brooklyn , like Phil
Rizzuto.
Rizzuto was born in September of 1918, when Babe Ruth set another one of his
World Series records, for most consecutive shutout innings pitched.
One of the Best Picture nominees at that same 1995 Academy Award ceremony was
the most famous movie of an actor who became well-known playing a professional
baseball player.
That actor's long-time companion starred in the Rocky Horror Picture Show - with Meatloaf.
And Bela Lugosi was one of the biggest stars of "horror picture shows".
Ten days after Mantle's death, Phil Rizzuto retired from broadcasting, lamenting
the fact that he hadn't attended Mantle's funeral.
The President on that day was often compared to Elvis Presley, and to the
President who died in Dallas.
And has become infamous, as was Bela Lugosi, for something involving sucking,
something that also happened in 1995.
That President gave his grand jury testimony concerning said sucking on
8/17/98, nine years to the day before Phil Rizzuto's funeral, and exactly three
weeks before Roger Maris's home run record was tied, and oh by the way, the #1
song on 8/17/98 was by a woman named Monica.
Kathie Lee Gifford celebrated her 3rd birthday the day of Phil Rizzuto's last game, the day Bela Lugosi died, August 16th, 1956.
At the time she didn't realize that another man who would spend many days in Yankee Stadium was also celebrating his birthday that day - his 26th birthday.
Her future husband.
The most famous home run in baseball history was hit on the same spot where the fatal beaning had occurred on August 16th.
The man who hit the home run, Bobby Thomson, died August 16th 2010.
44 years to the day (yes 1995 again) after that home run, another man who became famous playing college football where Gifford had played, was acquitted on two murder charges, a man who had appeared in three movies with the wife of...well, you know.
The two baseball teams that had played against each other in the first of those three movies played a real-life playoff game that same day.
And yes that movie featured the aforementioned Reggie, who would have "killed the Queen", if not for someone else falling - on him. Then the villian fell to his death. Then the real-life murderer apparently fell to his death - but no.
And yes those three movies starred a man who would play the part of Dracula.
Mantle was the AL MVP in 1956.
Birthday boy Gifford was NFL MVP in 1956.
The baseball player who allegedly had the affair with Doris Day was standing only about 100 feet away when another player was almost killed, this time by a bat, rather than a ball, when one man named John (Juan) attacked another man named John.
The Beatles performed their last concert in the US exactly one year and one week later on virtually the same spot he had been standing at the time.
And the John who was almost killed by the bat died in 2002.
On August 16th.
Michael Douglas, who first became famous playing the part of a police detective in the same city where the murderer was born, the same city where Juan hit John, the same city where the Beatles played their last U.S. concert, the same city where Vertigo was filmed, the same city where Hank Aaron's home run record was broken, the same city that was the site of Doris Day's TV series, announced his diagnosis of throat cancer on August 16th 2010.
Babe Ruth died of throat cancer.
The 3rd most famous "shooting in Dallas " occurred in 1980.
When John Junior was shot.
Another John Junior's father had been shot in the most famous Dallas shooting.
The father of the woman who "shot" John Junior in "Dallas", for decades, had the largest-selling recording in history.
That record was finally arguably broken by a song by a man named John - a song that had originally been written about a woman who had slept with the man named John shot in Dallas, and was re-written to be about a woman who died in the back of a car, like the man named John who was shot in Dallas.
The only existing recording of the TV broadcast of the game containing the 2nd most famous home run in baseball history spent 50 years unnoticed in the basement of a home once owned by...Bing Crosby.
And oh yes, the song recorded by Phil Rizzuto was about activity in the back of a car. Holy cow!
The last name of the baseball player who was killed in 1920 is the same as the last name of the man who shot the Beatle named John (who had written a song about a man who had his mind blown out in a car) just two weeks after we learned the identity of the "third shooter", and the man who announced this event to millions of Americans was standing next to Frank Gifford when he did it.
A year after the third most famous "shooting in Dallas", still another John Junior shot another President, a man who had played the part of a baseball player who had been named after another President, with Doris Day playing the part of his wife, and whose middle name was the same as the name of the city of the baseball player who died after being hit by the pitch on August 16th.
And the middle name of the President who played the baseball player named after a President was the same as the last name of the man who was President when that player was hit by the pitch.
Gifford's first game at Yankee Stadium was 21 years to the day before the release of Bat Out Of Hell, which was the same year he was inducted into the HOF, the same year Elvis and Crosby died.
And where did he play his home games before Yankee Stadium? The place where the fatal beaning had occurred on August 16th. The Polo Grounds.
Also his other long-time MNF broadcast partner played football in, well, Dallas.
And Crosby's big hit of 1956 - the last Top Ten hit for a man who had 41 #1 songs - more than Elvis and the Beatles combined - was a duet he sang with a princess who would die in a car, a song that also would be recorded by Elvis, and a Beatle, and by the man named John who performed the song that arguably broke his record for all-time top-selling single - a song about a princess who died in a car.
The Polo Grounds was also the site of baseball's most famous "boner", in 1908, and the man who played "Boner" on Growing Pains was named Koenig, and the treatment of another man named Koenig - a former Yankee shortstop like Rizzuto and Mason - led to Babe Ruth's most famous home run.
And Andrew Koenig, whose father was earwig tortured by the same man who fell to his death in The Naked Gun, was born on
August 17th.
Yankee Babe Ruth died in 1948. On August 16th.
Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto's last game was in 1956. On August 16th.
Bela Lugosi died that day. August 16th, 1956.
Bela Lugosi was most famous for having played the part of a vampire.
Like a vampire, Elvis Presley often wore black and avoided daylight.
Elvis was born in 1935.
Babe Ruth's last game was in 1935.
Elvis died in 1977.
On August 16th.
That same year, Phil Rizzuto, of all people, did something Elvis had often done.
He participated in a recording project. It was called "Bat Out Of Hell".
It was released to the public the same week Reggie Jackson tied one of Babe
Ruth's World Series records, for most home runs hit in one game.
The biggest hit from the LP was a song that alluded to "I Want You I Need You I
Love You", by Elvis.
Which was one of the most popular songs in the country the day of Phil Rizzuto's last
game, the day Bela Lugosi died, August 16th, 1956.
Yankee Mickey Mantle once wrote a book called "My Favorite Summer 1956".
Mantle broke another of Babe Ruth's World Series records, for most total home
runs.
Mantle was born in 1931.
"Dracula" starring Bela Lugosi, was released in 1931.
Mickey Mantle died on August 13th, 1995 in Dallas.
Meatloaf (Bat Out Of Hell) was born in Dallas .
The most well-known death ever in Dallas was that of a President who was shot in the
head, a President who had been a U.S. Congressman.
The actor Martin Landau's most famous movie was one in which his
character fell to his death from the "face" of the other US President to be shot
in the head.
That "face" is in South Dakota.
Another U.S. Congressman struck and killed a pedestrian in 2003 - while driving in South Dakota.
On August 16th.
The man who broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record, and once shared an
apartment with Mickey Mantle, was born in North Dakota.
The actor who played Martin Landau's co-conspirator in that movie we mentioned
was James Mason.
Two of the men who have played shortstop for the New York Yankees are Phil
Rizzuto and another man named James Mason.
Still another man named James Mason discovered gold in the Yukon in 1896,
setting off the Klond**e Gold Rush.
That discovery happened on August 16th.
The only death in a Major League baseball game occurred after a player was hit
by a pitch in 1920.
On August 16th.
The man standing in rightfield at the moment that pitch was thrown was...Babe Ruth.
Babe Ruth's career home run record was broken by Hank Aaron.
Elvis Presley's middle name was Aron.
Babe Ruth was the most famous person of the 1920s and he died on August 16th.
Elvis Presley was the most famous person of the 1950s and he died on August
16th.
The most famous female person of the 1980s is alive.
But she was born on August 16th.
The fourth member of the Beatles became a Beatle on August 16th.
The Beatles, soon to be the four most famous men in the world, released an album
showing only 1/2 of their heads on the cover of the album the same day the most
famous man in the world lost almost half of his head in Dallas.
James Mason's 2nd most well-known film dealt with his character's relationship
with an underaged girl.
Elvis Presley married a woman he began dating when he was in his 20's, while she
was only 14.
Martin Landau's character was a co-conspirator in a murder - successful - unlike
his unsuccessful attempt at murder in his most well-known film - in a movie that
was written and directed by a man who has become notorious for his involvement
with underaged girls.
The player born in North Dakota - Roger Maris - wore #9.
Bela Lugosi's 2nd most well-known film is Plan 9 From Outer Space.
The star of the movie in which Martin Landau's character fell to his death,
Cary Grant, also was the star of another movie three years later, a movie that also
featuring appearances by Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Roger Maris.
The co-star of that movie, That Touch Of Mink, was a singer who once allegedly had an
affair with a major league shortstop, whose solo singing and movie career began
the year Babe Ruth died, 1948, and whose signature song was on the charts the day
of Phil Rizzuto's last game, the day Bela Lugosi died, August 16, 1956.
That singer. Doris Day, introduced that song, Whatever Will Be Will Be, in a
movie in which her character sang the song loudly to try to prevent the murder
of her son.
That movie, and also the movie with James Mason and Martin Landau, showed
characters falling to their deaths in the scenes just before the final scenes.
A movie made by the same director of both of these movies, made between these
two movies, showed both a man and woman falling to their deaths - in the first
scene and final scene.
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and North By Northwest.
Mantle, Berra, Maris, and Rizzuto wore #s 7,8,9, and 10.
Martin Landau, in 1995, the year of Mickey Mantle's death, the year Phil Rizzuto
announced his retirement from broadcasting, won an Academy Award.
For playing the part of Bela Lugosi.
The movie for which he won that award starred an actor named John who has become most famous playing a pirate.
The Pirates allowed Babe Ruth's final home run.
The Academy Award winning movie often cited as the greatest film ever made was
based on the life of a man whose first two names were William Randolph.
One of the men who played second base next to Yankee shortstop James Mason was named William Randolph.
Martin Landau was born in 1931, like Mickey Mantle, and in Brooklyn , like Phil
Rizzuto.
Rizzuto was born in September of 1918, when Babe Ruth set another one of his
World Series records, for most consecutive shutout innings pitched.
One of the Best Picture nominees at that same 1995 Academy Award ceremony was
the most famous movie of an actor who became well-known playing a professional
baseball player.
That actor's long-time companion starred in the Rocky Horror Picture Show - with Meatloaf.
And Bela Lugosi was one of the biggest stars of "horror picture shows".
Ten days after Mantle's death, Phil Rizzuto retired from broadcasting, lamenting
the fact that he hadn't attended Mantle's funeral.
The President on that day was often compared to Elvis Presley, and to the
President who died in Dallas.
And has become infamous, as was Bela Lugosi, for something involving sucking,
something that also happened in 1995.
That President gave his grand jury testimony concerning said sucking on
8/17/98, nine years to the day before Phil Rizzuto's funeral, and exactly three
weeks before Roger Maris's home run record was tied, and oh by the way, the #1
song on 8/17/98 was by a woman named Monica.
Kathie Lee Gifford celebrated her 3rd birthday the day of Phil Rizzuto's last game, the day Bela Lugosi died, August 16th, 1956.
At the time she didn't realize that another man who would spend many days in Yankee Stadium was also celebrating his birthday that day - his 26th birthday.
Her future husband.
The most famous home run in baseball history was hit on the same spot where the fatal beaning had occurred on August 16th.
The man who hit the home run, Bobby Thomson, died August 16th 2010.
44 years to the day (yes 1995 again) after that home run, another man who became famous playing college football where Gifford had played, was acquitted on two murder charges, a man who had appeared in three movies with the wife of...well, you know.
The two baseball teams that had played against each other in the first of those three movies played a real-life playoff game that same day.
And yes that movie featured the aforementioned Reggie, who would have "killed the Queen", if not for someone else falling - on him. Then the villian fell to his death. Then the real-life murderer apparently fell to his death - but no.
And yes those three movies starred a man who would play the part of Dracula.
Mantle was the AL MVP in 1956.
Birthday boy Gifford was NFL MVP in 1956.
The baseball player who allegedly had the affair with Doris Day was standing only about 100 feet away when another player was almost killed, this time by a bat, rather than a ball, when one man named John (Juan) attacked another man named John.
The Beatles performed their last concert in the US exactly one year and one week later on virtually the same spot he had been standing at the time.
And the John who was almost killed by the bat died in 2002.
On August 16th.
Michael Douglas, who first became famous playing the part of a police detective in the same city where the murderer was born, the same city where Juan hit John, the same city where the Beatles played their last U.S. concert, the same city where Vertigo was filmed, the same city where Hank Aaron's home run record was broken, the same city that was the site of Doris Day's TV series, announced his diagnosis of throat cancer on August 16th 2010.
Babe Ruth died of throat cancer.
The 3rd most famous "shooting in Dallas " occurred in 1980.
When John Junior was shot.
Another John Junior's father had been shot in the most famous Dallas shooting.
The father of the woman who "shot" John Junior in "Dallas", for decades, had the largest-selling recording in history.
That record was finally arguably broken by a song by a man named John - a song that had originally been written about a woman who had slept with the man named John shot in Dallas, and was re-written to be about a woman who died in the back of a car, like the man named John who was shot in Dallas.
The only existing recording of the TV broadcast of the game containing the 2nd most famous home run in baseball history spent 50 years unnoticed in the basement of a home once owned by...Bing Crosby.
And oh yes, the song recorded by Phil Rizzuto was about activity in the back of a car. Holy cow!
The last name of the baseball player who was killed in 1920 is the same as the last name of the man who shot the Beatle named John (who had written a song about a man who had his mind blown out in a car) just two weeks after we learned the identity of the "third shooter", and the man who announced this event to millions of Americans was standing next to Frank Gifford when he did it.
A year after the third most famous "shooting in Dallas", still another John Junior shot another President, a man who had played the part of a baseball player who had been named after another President, with Doris Day playing the part of his wife, and whose middle name was the same as the name of the city of the baseball player who died after being hit by the pitch on August 16th.
And the middle name of the President who played the baseball player named after a President was the same as the last name of the man who was President when that player was hit by the pitch.
Gifford's first game at Yankee Stadium was 21 years to the day before the release of Bat Out Of Hell, which was the same year he was inducted into the HOF, the same year Elvis and Crosby died.
And where did he play his home games before Yankee Stadium? The place where the fatal beaning had occurred on August 16th. The Polo Grounds.
Also his other long-time MNF broadcast partner played football in, well, Dallas.
And Crosby's big hit of 1956 - the last Top Ten hit for a man who had 41 #1 songs - more than Elvis and the Beatles combined - was a duet he sang with a princess who would die in a car, a song that also would be recorded by Elvis, and a Beatle, and by the man named John who performed the song that arguably broke his record for all-time top-selling single - a song about a princess who died in a car.
The Polo Grounds was also the site of baseball's most famous "boner", in 1908, and the man who played "Boner" on Growing Pains was named Koenig, and the treatment of another man named Koenig - a former Yankee shortstop like Rizzuto and Mason - led to Babe Ruth's most famous home run.
And Andrew Koenig, whose father was earwig tortured by the same man who fell to his death in The Naked Gun, was born on
August 17th.
