T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there

[Jonathan Lighter]

One-famous sports funnyman...Polo Grounds...baseball...fans eating hot
dogs...crack of the bat...1900's fashions...want to believe....

Yep, that's how it works!

JL

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'd rather he failed. (All right, I'll shut up now.)
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> m a m
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> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:42 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu
> >wrote:
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> > > As with every other kind of mistaken folklore, the persistence of an
> > > incorrect etymology is unfortunate but hardly remarkable.
> > >
> >
> > Given that a large proportion of the voting public (and those politicians
> > who cuddle up to them) haven't absorbed the fact of evolution yet. . . .
> >
> > Though I believe that it is accepted by most that the earth is a sphere.
> >
> > Copernicus/Galileo only took 500 years to sink in.  Check back in 2610
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> > you will no doubt find that Tad Dorgan has passed.
> >
> > GAT
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> > George A. Thompson
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
> >
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