Then
Alvin Bennett would be
Alvin Bennett would be
as famous as
Wally Pipp
a painful headache caused
New York Yankee first baseman,
Wally Pipp, to be replaced by
a relatively inexperienced
baseball player named
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Mr. Gehrig then proceeded to set
the record books on fire
and helped make the New York Yankees
the most famous ball club
in the universe
Wally Pipp became famous
for getting benched
His name became a verb:
You've been Wally Pipped
means you lost your job to someone who is
much better at it than you are
all because of something
as inconsequential as
a headache
BUTAlvin Bennett did not swing a bat:
he was a musician in
Johnny Johnson's Trio
No one would ever mistake
the Cosmopolitan Club
in East St. Louis, Missouri
for Yankee Stadium
in the Bronx
AND
The Cosmopolitan Club
was Johnnie Johnson's
playing field
In the middle of the 20th Century,
if music—instead of baseball—
had been our national past time,
everyone would know
the rest of this story:
According to fact,
On December 31, 1951,
Alvin Bennett was too ill
to play with Jonnie Johnson's trio.
He was replaced by
a relatively inexperienced
musician named
Chuck Berry
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Mr. Berry then proceeded to set
the world of recorded music
on fire
He helped make
the most popular
music in the world
According to the hyperlink
in his name,
Chuck Berry paid homage
to Johnnie Johnson
in a song entitled
Johnny B. Goode
Both Chuck Berry
(1986)
and Lou Gehrig
(1939)
are charter members,
respectively,
of the Rock n'Roll
and Baseball
HALL OF FAME
It is virtually impossible
to find an image of Alvin Bennett
but an image of Wally Pipp
plus his baseball stats
is available
here
According to the hyperlink
in his name,
Chuck Berry paid homage
to Johnnie Johnson
in a song entitled
Johnny B. Goode
Both Chuck Berry
(1986)
and Lou Gehrig
(1939)
are charter members,
respectively,
of the Rock n'Roll
and Baseball
HALL OF FAME
It is virtually impossible
to find an image of Alvin Bennett
but an image of Wally Pipp
plus his baseball stats
is available
here
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