First Subway Ride MD2025 "The most powerful switch-hitter in

"The most powerful switch-hitter in baseball history and the successor to Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio as the symbol of the long reign of the New York Yankees

He could drag a bunt

This image was captured by Times staff photographer George Tames (1919 - 1994)

based in Berlin

"During such a fog

First Subway Ride MD2025 "The most powerful switch-hitter inOfficials and notables ride a flatcar with white sheeting covering the wood front railing as the city's first subway riders boarded the IRT for Interborough Rapid Transit at the City Hall Station, October 27, 1904. Major George B. McClellan, son of the Civil War general who was dismissed by President Lincoln, is in the first row on the far right.