Jimmy Powers, sport editor of the Sunday New York Daily News, causes a flap when he suggests the Yankees’ poor play this season can be attributed to “a mass polio epidemic” contracted from Lou Gehrig. The former Yankee first baseman and his roommate, Bill Dickey, file suit and the newspaper retracts the story on September 26 and apologizes.

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Jimmy Powers, sport editor of the Sunday New York Daily News, causes a flap when he suggests the Yankees’ poor play this season can be attributed to “a mass polio epidemic” contracted from Lou Gehrig. The former Yankee first baseman and his roommate, Bill Dickey, file suit and the newspaper retracts the story on September 26 and apologizes.

Henry McHenry, Poppa Ruiz and Ray Brown of the East team up on the second shutout of the East-West Game history, blanking the West, 11-0, in the 1940 East-West Game. Buck Leonard reaches base five times for the winners.

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Henry McHenry, Poppa Ruiz and Ray Brown of the East team up on the second shutout of the East-West Game history, blanking the West, 11-0, in the 1940 East-West Game. Buck Leonard reaches base five times for the winners.