Lou Gehrig

Jack had his first, but certainly not his last, "presentation" of his school career yesterday.  He had to choose a great American, research it, write a report and then do a short 2 minute presentation.  The teachers encouraged them to dress up as well, but that was optional - I didn't tell him that :).

After looking over the list he narrowed it down to George W. Bush and Lou Gehrig.  2 extremes, but is was his choice.  He didn't really know much about Lou Gehrig other than that he was a baseball player and frankly he has been obsessed with George W. Bush so that was 

a no brainer.  In the end he decided to go with Lou Gehrig.  We did all of the research and he wrote out his report (he was excited to find that Mr. Gehrig both threw and batted LEFT handed just like him!).  As a side note, what a great guy Lou Gehrig was.  Were it not for Babe Ruth it is likely Lou Gehrig would have gone down as the greatest hitter the Yankees had seen until Mickey Mantle came along.  Not to mention that he held the Major League record for "most consecutive games played" until Cal Ripken broke the record during the 90's.  He played even though the pain of his illness was so bad he would double over in pain.  He didn't want to let any of his teammates down.  But I digress... well then it came time to come up with his costume.  Well, we have enough Boston Red Sox stuff to outfit a small army, but NOTHING owned by us with a New York Yankees emblem has ever crossed the thresh-hold of our home and I refused to buy a NY Yankees baseball hat just for the report, so we got creative...

We found the logo on line and printed it, cut it out and glued it to a piece of navy paper.  Then we taped it OVER the B on his Red Sox hat...  Yeah, we are pretty sure the baseball gods were not happy about that one.  It turned out pretty good, but every Red Sox fan we have told this story too kind of gets that look on their face like "I can't believe you would desecrate a Boston hat like that" or "Great now the curse is going to start all over again" :).  

That all remains to be seen, but he did get an A and I was VERY proud of all the work he put into it.  Go Jack!