 Then, brightening, "Anyways my father-in-law, Giles Johnson, says he's gonna name the baby ‘Homer.’"

After the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was founded in 1939, celebrating the centennial of baseball, in Cooperstown, New York, Westbrook Pegler, columnist of the "Chicago Tribune" and the Scripps-Howard and the Hearst syndicates, complained that Cooperstown was studiously ignoring the corps of sports journalists.