It Didn't Play in Peoria by Gregory H. Wahl Charles A. Bobbitt

Author:Gregory H. Wahl, Charles A. Bobbitt [Gregory H. Wahl, Charles A. Bobbitt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, General, Travel, Midwest, East North Central (IL; IN; MI; OH; WI), Midwest (IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; OH; SD; WI)
ISBN: 9781439614167
Google: 461nOE5lfAkC
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-07-27T04:54:31+00:00

George “Lucky” Whiteman, 1918 World Series hero for the Boston Red Sox, was featured on the front of this c. 1908 postcard. The journeyman outfielder and native Peorian upstaged Babe Ruth in his last major league game.

This “goodbye cake” featuring a gorilla shaking question marks out of a tree was presented to the Peoria-bound Bette and Phil Farmer at a 1970 Hollywood farewell party. (Photo courtesy of Bette and Phil Farmer.)

In 1974, science-fiction master writer Philip José Farmer posed as the fictional sci- fi writer/character Kilgore Trout, the alter ego of novelist Kurt Vonnegut. With Vonnegut’s okay, Farmer wrote Venus on the Half-Shell and published it under Trout’s name. Then Vonnegut erupted; the spat ended in 2007 with Vonnegut’s death. (Photo courtesy of Bette Farmer.)

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