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Dear Mary Bellino,
I happen to live in China, far away from a library that would have Appel's
book, but I would love to hear more about "Chapman's homer" since to my
knowledge there was never a game in which the Red Sox beat the Yankees, 5-4,
on a Chapman homer. Cf. my post from 10/31/04, pasted below. There was only
one game, ever, in which Chapman homered AND the Red Sox beat the Yankees,
and the result was 8-4.
Mike Donohue
>----- Forwarded message from michaeldonohue@hotmail.com -----
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:31:25 -0400
> From: Michael Donohue <michaeldonohue@hotmail.com>
>
>To be exact: in Chapman's two seasons with the Red Sox, there was
exactly
>one game in which a) he hit a home run and b) the Red Sox won. This was
>Opening Day, April 18, 1938, and if you can open the pdf file attached
>you'll see a photograph of Chapman crossing home plate. But the score
was
>not 5-4; it was 8-4. And Chapman's home run, while it was the only
>four-bagger in the game, did not put the Red Sox ahead; it tied the
score at
>2-2 in the second inning.
>
>In the sixth inning, during the decisive 6-run Red Sox rally, Ben
Chapman
>came up with two on and no outs; he laid down a sacrifice bunt, setting
up
>Bobby Doerr for a bases-clearing double.
>
>It is possible that in some American newspaper on April 19, 1938 there
ran
>the headline "Red Sox beat Yanks 8-4 on Chapman's Homer," but
it would be a
>bit odd, since Chapman's homer was not the go-ahead hit.
>
>Mike Donohue
>From: NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
>Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
>To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
>Subject: [NABOKV-L] Query: PF's pirouetting nymph?
>Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:39:12 -0500
>
>Right--Alfred Appel, Jr., identified both of the ads mentioned
>in Kinbote's note to line 91 (pp. 114-15 of the Vintage
>edition), which he found in two issues of LIFE magazine (from
>1937 and 1949). They are reproduced in his Nabokov's Dark Cinema
>(Oxford, 1974), pp. 32-33, with discussion on 31. He also
>recounts that Nabokov "unearthed in the stacks of the Cornell
>library" the newspaper story headlined "Red Sox Beat Yanks 5-4
>on Chapman's Homer" (30; the player was Boston outfielder Ben
>Chapman, 1937-38). Appel, as he mentions (308n3), was of course
>able to draw on many personal conversations with Nabokov.
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I happen to live in China, far away from a library that would have Appel's
book, but I would love to hear more about "Chapman's homer" since to my
knowledge there was never a game in which the Red Sox beat the Yankees, 5-4,
on a Chapman homer. Cf. my post from 10/31/04, pasted below. There was only
one game, ever, in which Chapman homered AND the Red Sox beat the Yankees,
and the result was 8-4.
Mike Donohue
>----- Forwarded message from michaeldonohue@hotmail.com -----
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:31:25 -0400
> From: Michael Donohue <michaeldonohue@hotmail.com>
>
>To be exact: in Chapman's two seasons with the Red Sox, there was
exactly
>one game in which a) he hit a home run and b) the Red Sox won. This was
>Opening Day, April 18, 1938, and if you can open the pdf file attached
>you'll see a photograph of Chapman crossing home plate. But the score
was
>not 5-4; it was 8-4. And Chapman's home run, while it was the only
>four-bagger in the game, did not put the Red Sox ahead; it tied the
score at
>2-2 in the second inning.
>
>In the sixth inning, during the decisive 6-run Red Sox rally, Ben
Chapman
>came up with two on and no outs; he laid down a sacrifice bunt, setting
up
>Bobby Doerr for a bases-clearing double.
>
>It is possible that in some American newspaper on April 19, 1938 there
ran
>the headline "Red Sox beat Yanks 8-4 on Chapman's Homer," but
it would be a
>bit odd, since Chapman's homer was not the go-ahead hit.
>
>Mike Donohue
>From: NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
>Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
>To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
>Subject: [NABOKV-L] Query: PF's pirouetting nymph?
>Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:39:12 -0500
>
>Right--Alfred Appel, Jr., identified both of the ads mentioned
>in Kinbote's note to line 91 (pp. 114-15 of the Vintage
>edition), which he found in two issues of LIFE magazine (from
>1937 and 1949). They are reproduced in his Nabokov's Dark Cinema
>(Oxford, 1974), pp. 32-33, with discussion on 31. He also
>recounts that Nabokov "unearthed in the stacks of the Cornell
>library" the newspaper story headlined "Red Sox Beat Yanks 5-4
>on Chapman's Homer" (30; the player was Boston outfielder Ben
>Chapman, 1937-38). Appel, as he mentions (308n3), was of course
>able to draw on many personal conversations with Nabokov.
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