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Mero has been making this claim for a while, including on his show “Desus and Mero,” back in 2017: For years, many speculated that Ruth was at least partly Black, even during his time as a player, where according to some accounts he faced racist taunts over his appearance. But we know that nothing definitive has emerged to support these claims. What we do know is that Ruth’s family was made up primarily of ethnic Germans. According to a biography of Ruth, “The Life that Ruth Built,” by Marshall Smelser, a baseball scholar, the Ruths were of German descent: The name Ruth may be from ...

Yankee Stadium is expected to join Mets’ Citi Field as a Covid-19 vaccine mega site New York’s Yankee Stadium is expected to join numerous sports and entertainment venues around the nation being used as mass Covid-19 vaccination sites in a bid to boost lagging vaccine numbers. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday a “plan is in motion” to use The House that Ruth Built in the Bronx as a vaccination site. The announcement came one day after the mayor and New York Mets owner Steve Cohen said a 24-hour, vaccine mega site will be set up at Citi Field in Queens later this month.

Yankee Stadium and Mets' Citi Field Covid-19 vaccination sites CNN 1/13/2021 By Ray Sanchez and Sheena Jones, CNN © Sarah Stier/Getty Images New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says a "plan is in motion" to use Yankee Stadium as a vaccination site. New York's Yankee Stadium is expected to join numerous sports and entertainment venues around the nation being used as mass Covid-19 vaccination sites in a bid to boost lagging vaccine numbers. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday a "plan is in motion" to use The House that Ruth Built in the Bronx as a vaccination ...

Adams County was home to at least two historians of national eminence. One was Allan Nevins of Columbia University. Nevins was a Camp Point, Ill., native who twice won the Pulitzer Prize and wrote a multi-volume history of the Civil War and its prologue. The other was Marshall Smelser, a graduate of Quincy High School and Quincy College. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard under the direction of Samuel Eliot Morison, a Pulitzer Prize historian of maritime and American history. Smelser taught at the University of Notre Dame for almost three decades. Smelser belonged to the Quincy family known for i...

King of Sluggers: Josh Gibson’s Legacy A century has passed since the founding of the Negro Leagues, and the great-grandson of the game’s most feared yet forgotten hitter is fighting for the recognition of Pittsburgh’s Black baseball history. November 11, 2020 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHUCK BEARD He has a set of hands that could wrap around the trunk of a Southern Live Oak — the state tree of his native Georgia — and a pair of forearms that could snap one in half. It’s sometime in the 1930s in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh when he steps up to the plate and bashes a baseball ...