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  "description": "Babe Ruth's popularity reaches new heights as the Yankees head for Chicago, while a whimsical Kris Kringle column imagines John McGraw postponing the Giants' game because June weather feels more like Christmas.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T03:47:39.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Robert Connery",
    "Chicago White Sox",
    "New York Yankees",
    "Babe Ruth",
    "Waite Hoyt",
    "John McGraw",
    "Cincinnati Reds",
    "Freddie Fitzsimmons",
    "Hugh McQuillan",
    "Virgil Barnes",
    "Heine Mueller",
    "Pittsburgh Pirates",
    "Lee Meadows",
    "Wilcy Moore",
    "Rube Benton"
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  "textContent": "Content from NY Daily News - Thursday June 17, 1926\n\n## In This Edition\n\n  * Yankees Carry Gospel to Windy City\n    * Many Converts\n    * None Like Our Hero\n  * Jingle, Kris Kringle Won’t Let Baseball Teams Mingle\n\n\n\n## YANKS CARRY GOSPEL TO WINDY CITY\nHOYT IN PULPIT TODAY AT OPENER OF SOX MEETING\n\nBy MARSHALL HUNT.\n\nSt. Paul, Minn., June 16.—The great missionary itinery of your Yankees, preaching the virtue of honest toil and wholesome living, carried them today out to the realm of the true Nordics.\n\naite Hoyt, Yankees ace and likely starter for New York's series opener against the White Sox, featured in a June 1926 New York Daily News column.\n\nThey were to play an exhibition game with the St. Paul Saints, the guardian angel of whom is Robert Connery, former Yankee scout. It was to be a warming up gesture preparatory to an affair of real moment—a four game series with the Chicago White Sox in Chicago beginning tomorrow.\n\nBut the exhibition game wasn't played after a 580 mile trip by the Yankees and more than 10,000 were disappointed. Rain was the reason.\n\n### Many Converts.\n\nThe Yankee tabernacle has been erected in Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis. The congratulations were gratifying large and the results encouraging. The New York Yankees have won seven games and lost four, and the chief evangelist, the Rev. Dr. Babe Ruth, thundered his convincing sermons out of the tabernacles four times.\n\n\"Our Herman\" cartoon depicting Babe Ruth greeting admirers during the Yankees' 1926 road trip, reflecting the superstar's immense popularity across the country.\n\nLike as not Master Waite Hoyt, the boy evangelist, will occupy the pulpit in Chicago tomorrow and, constituents, there will be a series in which the Yankees better had attend very religiously to their crocheting, not because the eucharistic congress is about to open, but because the Sox are very tough little boys and threaten to do something really fine for baseball in what the boys call the Windy City.\n\nNo more failing to hit in the pinches, like the lads did in St. Louis; no more flimsy pitching and porous infield work and the Bambino must hit two home runs to keep apace of his home run record, and, speaking of the Bambino, as nearly everybody is, never before did the penitent Mr. Ruth, the reformed G. Herman, the new babe, find more warmth, more solicitude.\n\n### None Like Our Hero.\n\nEven in the allegedly hostile St. Louis the Brown pitchers were razzed when they passed the Bam.\n\nThe simple children of the provinces remained up long after curfew last night to get a glimpse of the illustrious Mr. Ruth. At Hannibal, Mo.; Keokuk and Burlington, Ia., they clustered about the Yanks' special from St. Louis to St. Paul to see the Babe.\n\nAnd the obliging Mr. Ruth, in his usual formal reception costume—carpet slippers, pantaloons and undershirt—stepped from the platform of his Pullman to shake the hands of hundreds.\n\n* * *\n\n## Jingle, Kris Kringle Won’t Let Baseball Teams Mingle\n\n _In keeping with the wintry weather, THE NEWS sports staff has gone to great expense to import Santa Claus specially to write the story of the Giant postponement yesterday. This is exclusive._\n\n_By KRIS KRINGLE._\n\nKris Kringle, the fictional narrator of a humorous New York Daily News baseball column about a rainout between the Giants and Reds in June 1926.\n\nWas Mister John McGraw surprised when I jingled the bells of my reindeer outside his window yesterday morning, and shouted—\"Good day, Mister McGraw, good day und a merry Yuletide to you\"? Yes, he was most surprised.\n\niants manager John McGraw and outfielder Heinie Mueller, whose recent pinch-hit success earned praise in a whimsical June 1926 newspaper feature.\n\nGray were the clouds und I bring a wintry wind_e_ that whistle through his nightclothes.\n\n\"Jerushy,\" say your Mister McGraw, \"is this June 16, or December 25? I got a ball game scheduled today with the Cincinnati Reds, you old scamp.\"\n\n\"So!\" I said, because I haf interest in the games of ball. \"And who was too pitching?\"\n\n\"O,\" says Mister McGraw, putting on his fur lined pajamas, \"I thought of Freddie Fitzsimmons, Hugh McQuillan and Virgil Barnes. That should hae been enough, no? We have won three from the Cincinatis already.\"\n\n\"They will not pitching today,\" I told him, \"because soon maybe it will snowing.\"\n\nUnd so Mister McGraw seized on the telephoning, and says—\"Hollo! It is Mister McGraw. There is today no game with Cincinnatti, or anybody else. Der boys can have the day off, but they mustn't go ice skating because it's bad for the ankles. The game will be played off as part of a double header next Christmas when maybe it will be warm enough.\"\n\n\"Tell me,\" I asked to Mister McGraw, \"how do you liking my landsman, Herr Heine Mueller from St. Louis.\"\n\nCartoon illustration of Kris Kringle informing John McGraw that the Giants' scheduled game may be snowed out—a playful take on a June 1926 rain postponement.\n\n\"A pleasant young man,\" answers Mister McGraw, \"und I don't have to telling you that this single he did in the pinch hitting against Cincy the other day was as good to recommend him as you want. I am glad that I have him.\"\n\n\"Und Thursday comes the Pittsburgh Pirates,\" I am saying, as it is time to gallop away and see what all the boys and girls want for Christmas. \"Who is to pitching then?\"\n\n\"For the Pittsburgh, I think it will be the Lee Meadows,\" informs Mister McGraw. \"And for us, maybe Fitzsimmons and McQuillan and Barnes and Wilcy Moore and Rube Benton.\"\n\n\"Giddap, Donner! Giddap, Blitzen!\" I shouting, und away we go und der was no ball game.",
  "title": "Yankees Carry Gospel to Chicago as Babe Ruth Draws Crowds Across the Midwest",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-18T03:47:39.772Z"
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