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The World Series is scheduled to begin on October 23. Tidbits takes you out to the ball game with the history of baseball’s Fall Classic, and says, “Play ball!” • Although Major League Baseball has had some sort of post-season championship series since about 1884, the World Series as we know it began in 1903 when the Pittsburgh Pirates competed against the Boston Americans. Boston took the Series in what was then a nine-game series, five games to three. • Every now and then, all the World Series games were played in one city, for example, the 1906 Series which was played by the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. But it’s pretty rare for all the games to be played in the same ballpark. In 1921 and 1922, both New York teams, the Yankees and the Giants used the Polo Grounds as their park, where all the games were played. In 1944, the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns battled it out in one stadium, Sportsman’s Park. • The World Series ring is a familiar award given to players as a token of their victory. However, up until 1922, players received pocket watches or medallions as a memento. The 1922 New York Giants were the first team to receive rings as a keepsake from the championship. Turn the page for more!

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ELLA FITZGERALD (continued): • Several more talent show wins followed, and early in 1935, the prize was a week-long gig at the Harlem Opera House. A popular bandleader, Chick Webb, heard Ella and invited her to travel with the band for $12.50 a week. • Ella recorded her first song at 19, and had a number one song and million-copy seller at 21. Her version of the nursery rhyme, “A Tisket, A-Tasket” in a swing/bebop style stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. • When Ella was 22, her mentor Chick Webb passed away, and the band was renamed “Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Band,” as she took on the bandleader duties for the next three years. She then began touring and recording with other big bands, including those of Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. She married the bass player of Gillespie’s group, Ray Brown, and the couple adopted a son. • Ella mastered the technique of “scat” singing, that vocal improvisation of nonsense syllables that mimics another instrument in the band. In other words, her voice performed the equivalent of an instrumental solo, with scales, arpeggios, and riffs. • During the 1950s and 1960s, Ella was a regular on television variety shows, “The Bing Crosby Show,” “The Dinah Shore Show,” “The Andy Williams Show,” and “The Ed Sullivan Show,” among several others. • Over the course of her career, Ella Fitzgerald recorded over 200 albums, which produced sales of 40 million albums, won 13 Grammy Awards, and performed at Carnegie Hall 26 times. Circulation problems related to diabetes resulted in Ella having both of her legs amputated below the knees when she was 76. Never fully recovering, she passed away at age 79 in 1996.

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HALLOWEEN (continued): • Jack-o-lanterns were an Irish tradition, and DEERE. JOHN DEERE. were originally made from (continued): hollowed-out tur•nips. It was while living in Illinois thatfaces John of no-the Their practice was to carve ticedonto the problems that farmers faceda when dead the vegetable and place lighted attempting to till soil. Because the area had candle inside to make it glow. formerly been woodland, the soil was rich • The record which of carving pumpkins is from withfirst hummus, clumped and clung to 1837. The word has were its origins the blades of the“pumpkin” plows farmers accus-in the Greek language, which translated tomed to using. Whilepepon, repairing a broken cir“large melon.” The Frenchupon modified this cular saw, Deere stumbled an idea. He to pompon, and the British changed it to pumpiemployed his smith skills to fashion the steel blade into thecolonists shape ofadjusted a plow. itHetoaffixed on. American “pumptwo One wooden spokes, thenoldest hitched the device kin.” of America’s known crops, to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soilof the pumpkin originated in Mexico. It’s one like a charm. In crops fact, ain farmer whowith happened the most popular the U.S., annual to be observing the test run immediately production of about 1.5 billion lbs. (680put milin an order for hisgrows own John Deere lion kg). Illinois about 95%plow. of the na•tion’s In short Deere is gave hiscontinent blacksmith crop.order, Antarctica the up only that shopnotand focused does grow them. on making plows. The company grew steadily and added many em• Small varieties weighing to 5 ployees. In the of latepumpkins 1840s, John relocated2 the lbs. (.9 to 2.3 kg) include the Sugar, Winter entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed Luxury, and Spooktacular. Intermediate of his own lack of education, John sent types his will weigh 8 to 15 lbs. (3.6 to 6.8 kg) children to the state’s finest schools. One with of names such asdays Autumn Gold, Harvest Moon, his proudest occurred when son Charles and Funny Weighing to 40 lbs.Bell’s (6.8 to earned theFace. equivalent of an15 MBA from Commercial College Chicago. 18.1 kg) are the Ghost in Rider, Hercules, Jumpin’ Jack, and Big Tom. All are ready for harvest • With his son Charles managing the company, inJohn aboutfound 110 time days.toThe record for the world’s pursue philanthropic inlargest pumpkin belongs to a Rhode man terests. He co-founded both the FirstIsland Nationnamed Ron who hauled hisChurch. massive al Bank andWallace, the First Congregational He was elected the pumpkin mayor of Moline in 1873, 2,009-lb. (911 kg) to the Topsfield, where one of fair his in first actions – of the2012. replaceMassachusetts September ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer • Halloween isn’t a fun time for everyone. Some pipe system – saved countless lives by reducfolks suffer from Samhanophobia, an intense ing the spread of disease. fear of Halloween, which can create severe •panic The original logo,include registered in attacks. John OtherDeere phobias the fear 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afriof witches (wiccaphobia), the fear of ghosts ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was re(phasmophobia), and the fear of cemeteries placed with the image of a North American (coimetrophobia). white-tailed deer. In the decades that fol-

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