And It's Some Show, Too
Here is a comic strip clipped from an old 1924 newspaper I found in the frame of an old map, scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop. I don't get it:
The strip is by Jerry Doyle, a political cartoonist from the New Deal era.
Here is the text from the comic strip:
Gent: "Boy o'boy!! This bill would certainly make a Scotchman dig deep!"
Bill 1: "Why Men Leave Home? Featuring Tommy Loughran"
Bill 2: "Football, or Who Has the Pigskin?"
"Baseball Season": "Sleepin' Sound"
Moneybag: "$ Players' Share"
—By Jerry Doyle
Me: "WTF?"
The strip is by Jerry Doyle, a political cartoonist from the New Deal era.
Here is the text from the comic strip:
Gent: "Boy o'boy!! This bill would certainly make a Scotchman dig deep!"
Bill 1: "Why Men Leave Home? Featuring Tommy Loughran"
Bill 2: "Football, or Who Has the Pigskin?"
"Baseball Season": "Sleepin' Sound"
Moneybag: "$ Players' Share"
—By Jerry Doyle
Me: "WTF?"
1 Comments:
I don't know if this is of any help here but figured I'd toss it out:
“Baseball’s Greatest Season” by Reed Browning (University of Massachusetts Press, $26.95, 232 pages) is an appealing and very interesting book on the 1924 baseball season by a professor of history at Kenyon College. Browning alternated his narrative chapters with others focused on players, business dealings, and other sidelights. No season in the history of baseball has matched 1924 for escalating excitement and emotional investment by fans. It began with observers expecting yet another World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. It ended months later when the hapless Washington Nationals (Senators), making their first Series appearance, grabbed the world championship by scoring the season-ending run on an improbable play."
And, as a Scot, I know that they are renowned as being frugal...hence the allusion to 'digging deep" "for a good show".
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