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  Harry Danning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A native of Los Angeles, California, Danning was nicknamed "Harry The Horse" for Damon Runyon's Broadway character.
Danning retired from baseball after serving in the military, working later as a minor league coach.
Harry Danning died in Valparaiso, Indiana at age of 93.
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 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Danning was an all-star catcher for the New York Giants from 1933 to 1942.
Nicknamed “Harry the Horse,” he was a lifetime.285 hitter who once hit for the cycle (a single, double, triple and home run in one game).
Danning told JTA earlier this year that he didn’t face a lot of anti-Semitism when he played.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5067   (138 words)

  
 HARRY "THE HORSE" DANNIG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Harry "The Horse" Danning was a four-time Major League All Star catcher for the New York Giants from 1933 to 1942.
Danning did not become a New York starting player until his fifth big league season (1937), and then only because the Giants' everyday catcher was injured.
Danning was dubbed "The Horse" by sportscaster Ted Husing during the 1936 World Series.
www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/HarryDanning.htm   (313 words)

  
 Harry Danning : Spent career as catcher for Giants : HistoricBaseball.com
Harry Danning, a catcher for the New York Giants in the 1930s and 1940s, died of natural causes on Nov. 29, 2004 in Valparaiso, Ind. He was 93.
Danning finished in the top 10 in National League MVP voting in 1939 and 1940.
Danning was the oldest living Jewish Major Leaguer but, due to health reasons, he was unable to attend an event at the Baseball Hall of Fame last year to honor Jewish players in baseball.
www.historicbaseball.com /players/d/danning_harry.html   (311 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Harry Danning
Harry Danning, an All-Star catcher for the New York Giants, died on Nov. 29 of natural causes.
Danning was the backup receiver to Gus Mancuso until 1938 when he became the Giants' regular catcher.
Danning was the oldest living Jewish major leaguer and a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and the New York Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001245.html   (246 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers - Harry Danning
Danning played for the New York Giants from 1933 through 1942, serving as a backup receiver to Gus Mancuso until 1937 when he became the club's regular catcher.
Harry The Horse Danning picked up his nickname from a short story by famed sportswriter Damon Runyan in the 1930s.
Although Harry was confined to a wheelchair the last three years of his life, he still made appearances.
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 Jewish Sports Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Danning became the Giants regular catcher in 1937; a long ball threat who averaged over.300 from 1938-40, Danning was a member of the National League All-Star teams in 1939-41.
Harry played in the 1936 and 1937 World Series, and was the batting star of the fourth game in the ‘37 Series when he went 3 for 4 to help beat the Yankees.
Danning served in the U.S. Army during WWII, and when he was discharged, announced he was retiring from the game.
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 Harry Danning, 1930s Baseball Star
Danning's workouts involved jumping rope, running, and shadow-boxing.
Danning's remaining connections to baseball are the piles of hand-written fan mail he receives, usually a couple each day from across the United States.
Danning fulfills all requests provided they are convenient and honest, then turns the letters over to his granddaughter, 1997 VHS graduate Cynthia Voller, who archives the letters.
www.innogize.com /papers/danning.html   (711 words)

  
 Jay's Giants Blog: Harry Danning, 1911-2004
June 15, 1940: Harry Danning hits for the cycle, as the Giants beat visiting Pittsburgh.
Danning's home run is an inside-the-park hit that lands 460 feet on the fly in front of the Giants' clubhouse.
Danning is the last player this century to include an IPHR in his cycle.
jay.typepad.com /william_jay/2004/12/harry_danning_1.html   (161 words)

  
 1939 Play Ball Checklist
Harry Danning (name in upper case letters) 18b.
Harry Danning (name in upper and lower case letters) 19.
Harry Gumbert (name in upper and lower case letters) 55a.
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 American Heroes
Harry Danning, who stood 6-foot-1 and weighed 190 pounds, was a backup catcher for the first half of his career until Giants manager Bill Terry (the last National Leaguer to bat.400 in one season) elevated him to a starting role in 1938.
Harry the Horse, a contact hitter with a little pop in his bat, had the year of his career the following season when he hit.313, drove in 74 runs and smashed 16 home runs.
Giants fans were wild about Harry, maybe because he represented the underdog, the guy who waited patiently for his big chance and then delivered when his turn in the spotlight came.
www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=94   (891 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Of Note
Harry Danning, 93, a catcher for the New York Giants from 1933 to 1942 who played on three World Series teams and was a four-time All Star, died Nov. 29 in Valparaiso, Ind. He had pneumonia.
Danning hit.300 or better three straight years and withstood many ethnic slurs as one of the few Jewish ballplayers of his era.
Danning, who grew up in Los Angeles, was catching when Joe DiMaggio hit his first World Series home run and when Lou Gehrig hit his last World Series home run.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A53825-2004Dec9?language=printer   (840 words)

  
 Harry Danning Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Harry Danning was born on Wednesday, September 6, 1911, in Los Angeles, California.
Danning was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 30, 1933, with the New York Giants.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Harry Danning baseball stats page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=danniha01   (336 words)

  
 Harry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry "A" Chesler – aka Harry Chesler Jr.
Harry Hotspur - nickname of Henry Percy, who appears in Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare), and was a rebel, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury 1403
Harry Magdoff and espionage – discussion of the role of Harry Magdoff in espionage activities
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 HOB2 - 1938 Recap - OOTP Developments Forums
Catcher Harry Danning proved last season was no fluke by hitting.346 and finishing third in the batting race.
Harry Danning has a chance to tie the game but the Washington catcher grounds out to first baseman Lou Gehrig and the Washington threat falls just short.
Dixie Walker, Wally Berger, Tom Miller and Harry Danning all homer for Washington with Miller's being a grand slam.
www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=11473   (4236 words)

  
 Baseball Autographs
Harry Danning, ONL baseball, Giant great, 1933, 36 and 37 World Series, 4 time All-Star.
Ex/Mt Harry Danning, unendorsed 1930's-40's MW Sporting Goods catchers mitt.
Danning was one of the greatest catchers in Giants history.
www.redshift.com /~gloveman/autographs.html   (6676 words)

  
 Harry Danning Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
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View Harry Danning's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org.
www.baseball-reference.com /d/danniha01.shtml   (427 words)

  
 Letters in the Dirt, No. 42   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Harry Danning was a catcher for the New York Giants in the 1930s, and played against Lou Gehrig and the New York Yankees in the World Series in 1936 and 1937.
Later that night, while walking home, I stopped by Baseball Nostalgia, and was able to purchase a reprint card of Harry Danning for just a quarter.
Saturday began with a printout on my desk which showed that Ila Borders had become the first woman ever to win a minor league baseball game, placed there by a thoughtful colleague who knew I’d be interested.
www.baseball1.com /twiles/dirt42.html   (1181 words)

  
 Harry Danning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Danning (September 6, 1911 – November 29, 2004) was a Major League Baseball catcher who played his entire career with the New York Giants (1933-42).
The BBWAA in TSN poll names the 1940 All Star team:
Baseball players who have hit for the cycle
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Danning   (350 words)

  
 1939 Play Ball
Harry Danning (name in upper and lower case letters)
Harry Gumbert (name in upper and lower case letters)
Harry Lavagetto (name in upper and lower case letters)
www.1939playball.net   (772 words)

  
 NetShrine Discussion Forum - Five Dingers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Craig S. Okay, I'll go with the 1939 Giants during their 17-4 win on June 4th of that season against the Reds.
In the 4th inning, Peaches Davis gave up homers to Harry Danning and Frank Demaree.
Wesley Livengood then came in and gave up a walk, followed by consecutive shots from Burgess Whitehead, Manuel Salvo and Joe Moore.
www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/printthread.php?t=6112   (169 words)

  
 Jews in Baseball
Louis W. Heilbroner (1861-1933) managed the St. Louis Cardinals in 1900, and nine years later founded baseball's first statistical bureau.
Harry (Judge) Goldman (1857-1941) was an organizer of the American League in 1900, and with the Frank brothers, Moses and Sydney, served as an official of the
Besides Pike, the outstanding players prior to 1900 were William M. (Billy) Nash (1865-1929), a third baseman who played in the major leagues for 15 years, and a member of pennant-winning teams in 1890 (Boston, Players League) and 1891-93 (Boston, National League).
www.jewishsports.com /jewsin/history/baseballhistory.htm   (672 words)

  
 The Vanishing Jewish Baseball Player - Florida Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
While playing in the minors, Reese once took part in a celebrity game in which the opposing team used a Jewish battery of pitcher-songwriter Harry uby and catcher Ike Danning (whose brother Harry starred for the New York Giants).
Rather than use conventional hand signals, Danning called the game in Yiddish, certain that nobody on the other team would understand.
Signed at age nineteen by the Detroit Tigers, the Bronx-born Greenberg enjoyed his breakout season in 1934, when he hit.339, driving in 139 runs and helping the Tigers win the American League pennant.
floridajewishnews.com /articles/content/view/73/53   (2053 words)

  
 Jewish Standard Everything you wanted to know about Jews in baseball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Harry Danning (who looked, someone has said, like a Modigliani painting) would be the catcher.
And the outfielders: Sid Gordon, Shawn Green, and Morris Arnovich.
But Azaroff suspects there were actually six: Harry Feldman, pitcher; Sid Gordon, Goody Rosen, and Morrie Arnovich, outfielders; Mike Schemer, first base; and Buddy Blattner, second base.
jstandard.com /articles/1320/1/Everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-J...   (738 words)

  
 Harry Danning Bibliography | BaseballLibrary.com
Harry Danning: The Man Behind The Mask by Ribalow, Harold W. And Meir Z. Book Section
Harry "The Horse" Danning by Van Blair, Rick
Harry the Horse by Reynolds, Quentin; Photography by Ifor Thomas
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/sabr/tbi/D/Danning_Harry.tbi.stm   (684 words)

  
 Rare Sports Films - Vintage Baseball Video Sports Auto Racing Events
In the Giants camp, manager Mel Ott talks about his players for 1945, and pitching great Carl Hubbell explains why he has retired and what his new duties are.
Shown are pitchers Bill Voiselle and Van Lingle Mungo, catcher Ernie Lombardi and outfielders Joe Medwick, Johnny Rucker and Dan Gardella.
Coach Dolf Luque and all four infielders, Phil Weintraub, George Hausmann, Buddy Kerr and Nap Reyes are shown.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Book Search: Harry Danning
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Selected Themes Easy Piano
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Easy Piano
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 Fantasy Females - includes Raquel Welch and Sybil Danning
The mainstay galleries - Raquel Welch, Sybil Danning, Sophia Loren, Adrienne Barbeau and Lynda Carter- have all been augmented, not only with brand new material but with original scans and substitutes of previously inferior-quality pictures.
The collection has now outgrown the original 700mb volume and has gone to a second CD, volume 2.
Anyway, it's there if you want it, and it also contains all the movie files, as these were really crowding out Vol 1, and they're not a speciality of Fantasy Females - yet.
www.manders.clara.net /fantasyfemales   (186 words)

  
 Historic Baseball : Some of the players who helped to make history in the game of Baseball
Danning, Harry -- 10 years as catcher for Giants
Dorish, Harry -- One of the first closers
Driessen, Dan -- Led Reds to trade Tony Perez
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 Harry Danning | The BASEBALL Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Search for Harry Danning at The Baseball Page
See the most popular players who played the same position as Harry Danning.
Find out where Danning ranks all-time among players at his position.
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