The 1926 World Series of Major League Baseball began on October 2 at Yankee Stadium, pitting the St. Louis Cardinals against the New York Yankees. The National League champion Cardinals defeated the American League champion Yankees four games to three. This was the first World Series appearance for the Cardinals, and the first of eleven World Series championships in Cardinals history, while the Yankees were in their fourth World Series in six years. In the Yankees' 10–5 Game 4 win, Babe Ruth hit three home runs, a World Series record that has been equaled only four times since. According to newspaper reports, Ruth had promised before the game that he would hit a home run and dedicate it to a sickly boy named Johnny Sylvester. An alternative version of this story, later portrayed in The Babe Ruth Story, claims that Ruth went to Sylvester's hospital bed and made the promise in person. This story is disputed by contemporary baseball historians, but it remains one of the most famous anecdotes in baseball history.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1263:

Scottish–Norwegian War: The armies of Norway and Scotland fought at the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Largs

1835:

Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas, encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales

1942:

Second World War: HMS Curacoa was accidentally rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from submarine attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Curacoa_(D41)

1992:

In response to a prison riot, military police stormed the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, killing at least 100 prisoners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carandiru_massacre

1996:

A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the static ports of the aircraft caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, due to instrument failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

drawing board: 1. A plane surface or table to which paper can be fastened for drawing purposes. 2. (figuratively) The planning stage of a project. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drawing_board

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.   --Graham Greene https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Graham_Greene