Subject: Re: Hank Greenberg
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 10:04:12 GMT
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:49:21PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> For those baseball fans on the list, I went to the local theater yesterday
> and saw the documentary "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" Greenberg was
> a Jewish ball player for the Detroit Tigers in the 30s and 40s. I really
> enjoyed it and recommend it if it happens to come your way.
I've been curious about this movie ... I pass "Hammerin' Hank's"
tenement every day while walking to work. There's a little brass
plaque and everything.
I also work a couple of blocks away from the house where Poe lived
while he wrote at least part of "The Raven," a tiny little building
(the last Manhattan location where Poe lived) that is to be torn down
by NYU, to allow construction of another glass box. This building
does not have a memorial to Poe and, indeed, has nothing to indicate
its literary history, other than the groups of protesters standing in
front of it.
ObSal: There are no houses that say "J.D. Salinger lived here,"
either. Quite a contrast to walking in Paris, where notable literary
people are memorialized widely (though not, to my knowledge, Ernest
Hemingway -- I've looked hard to find a single plaque there
commemorating one of his homes or haunts, and failed to locate any).
There is a book (published by a university press, I think) that
details homes of literary figures in New York. Old Jerry rates a few
mentions in there....
--tim
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