He wrote songs for films, television, and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. [2 ] Many of his compositions later went on to become jazz standards.
It was the damn Yankee’s game. But at some point, Southern boys finally started playing baseball in large numbers. When Ty Cobb, the Georgia Peach, arrived in the majors in 1905, there began in an inundation of great southern players, which…