May 7, 1965: Keith Richards and "Satisfaction"

It happened on this day or the moment that Keith Richards got the inspiration for "Satisfaction".

A few days later, Keith and Mick Jagger worked on the song and the group recorded it.

"Satisfaction" was the group's first # 1 song in the US.    

Rolling Stone, a magazine that has nothing to do with the group, ranked the song as # 2 in the Top 500 songs of all time.

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1970: Ernie Banks hit # 500

We remember the late Ernie Banks' 500th home run.   

Unfortunately, Banks never played in a post season game.  The Cubs were in first place in August 1969 but fell apart and lost to the Mets down the stretch.

Banks is still one of the most popular players ever to wear a major league uniform:   Hall of Fame 1977, 1958 & 1959 NL MVP, 512 HR, 1,636 RBI, 2,583 hits and twice led the NL in HR's.

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May 12, 1932: The police found the body of the Lindbergh baby

On May 12, 1932, the police found the body of the missing Lindbergh baby.     He was kidnapped on March 1st and many believe that the baby died that same night.  

It became "the crime of the century".   A man was eventually convicted for the crime but there are still doubts about who did it.     

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We remember Yogi Berra (1925-2015)

We remember Lawrence Berra who was born in St. Louis on this day in 1925.  He died in 2015.

Like a lot of kids of my generation, we got to know the post-baseball Yogi Berra. 

We remember him on Johnny Carson or other baseball events. We laughed and admired all of those quotes.    

Yogi Berra was a great player, a Hall of Famer and 3-time MVP.   He made the AL All Star Team 15 times and played on 10 World Series champions.

Did he really say all of those things?   I don't know but they were great.

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