Found First Mention (To Me) Of Joltin' Joe

[MikeGarcia]

.I was going through a really well-done scrapbook I had purchased (for the cards inside) and I found this , from Yankees Spring Training in March of 1936 . :

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..He wore "18" in 1936 Spring training. Finding Erickson in a Yankees uniform is difficult , but here's his R-314 Type 5 from 1937 when he was back on the farm team , Toronto Maple Leafs ?
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..If the language from the headline and the cringe-worthy sketches were used today , there would be gawdalmighty hell to pay. Twitter would crash. " Eithiopia" ??? " The Spaghetti Kid " ??? Oh Muh Gawddd.
It was a different time , eh. But I love finding this stuff


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[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

..If the language from the headline and the cringe-worthy sketches were used today , there would be gawdalmighty hell to pay. Twitter would crash. " Eithiopia" ??? " The Spaghetti Kid " ??? Oh Muh Gawddd.
It was a different time , eh. But I love finding this stuff...

The Italian Army invaded Ethiopia five months prior on October 3rd 1935, so a contemporary reference at the time. Very cool piece.

[MikeGarcia]

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.. Thanks , I gotta go , but Abyssinia.

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[BuzzD]

Here is another and with re3ference to "Mussolini men"