That marriage produced a daughter Jennie, who married Louis Stengel from across the river in Rock Island, IL.

Masloff was born Sophie Friedman on December 23, 1917 to Romanian Jewish parents Jennie and Louis Friedman in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Among the personalities the book talks about in depth are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Louis, Primo Carnera, Tony Canzoneri, Sugar Ray Robinson, Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Stillman, Jacob Ruppert and more.

And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened out and moved to St. Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

After 52 often beleaguered years in St. Louis, the Browns moved to Baltimore in 1954 and adopted the Orioles name in honor of the official state bird of Maryland.

On September 14, in a game moved to Miller Park due to Hurricane Ike, Zambrano pitched a no-hitter against the Astros, and six days later the team clinched by beating St. Louis at Wrigley.

After eight years with the Spiders, Young was moved to St. Louis in 1899.

After college graduation, Hall moved to Duluth, Minnesota where she was a caseworker for St. Louis County, Minnesota.

Rejected by Louis XIV for service in the French army, Eugene moved to Austria and transferred his loyalty to the Habsburg Monarchy.

On 6 May 1682, the royal court moved to the lavish Palace of Versailles, which Louis XIV had greatly expanded.

Weissmuller lived in Florida until the end of 1973, then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a greeter at Caesars Palace along with boxer Joe Louis for a time.

In 1927 the family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois.

* 1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

The town of St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, or AOF ) before it was moved to Dakar in 1902.

From May 1682, when Louis XIV moved the court and government permanently to Versailles, until his death in September 1715, Versailles was the unofficial capital of the kingdom of France.

In the beginning of the 1880s Burroughs was advised by a doctor to move to an area with a warmer climate and he moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he obtained a job in a machine shop.

Other owned-and-operated stations were KNX Los Angeles, KCBS San Francisco ( originally KQW ), WBBM Chicago, WCAU Philadelphia, WJSV Washington, D. C. ( later WTOP, which moved to the FM dial in 2005 ; the AM facility today is WFED, also a secondary CBS affiliate ), KMOX St. Louis, and WCCO Minneapolis.

Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony, returned from a grand tour through France and Italy in 1687 – 89, just at the moment that Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles.

The St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery was moved twice in the 19th century, and oral tradition and records of the Archdiocese of St. Louis suggested that Point du Sable's remains were also moved.

In the spring of 1926, Trumbauer closed up shop in St. Louis and, with Beiderbecke, moved to Detroit, this time to play with Goldkette's headline ensemble.

In the year 1666, Huygens moved to Paris where he held a position at the French Academy of Sciences under the patronage of Louis XIV.

He moved to St. Louis and founded the Southern Wire Company, which became the largest manufacturer of unlicensed or " bootleg " barbed wire.

In 1907, Ponzi moved to Montreal and became an assistant teller in the newly opened Banco Zarossi, a bank started by Luigi " Louis " Zarossi to service the influx of Italian immigrants arriving in the city.

His tenure as commanding general was marred by political difficulties, and from 1874 to 1876, he moved his headquarters to St. Louis, Missouri in an attempt to escape from them.

He started the next season with the Kansas City Blues of the Central Hockey League and was leading the league in points when he was called up mid-season to play 31 games with St. Louis.

Located among small tributary valleys of the Missouri River, Columbia is roughly equidistant from St. Louis and Kansas City.

Greater St. Louis is to the East, and the Kansas City Metropolitan Area is to the West.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

However, that Yale / Harvard game was played three weeks after St. Louis completed 45 and 48-yard passes against Kansas before a crowd of 7, 000 at Sportsman's Park.

The Chouteau family operated under the Spanish license at St. Louis in the lower Missouri Valley as early as 1765, but it would be 1821 before the Chouteaus reached Kansas City, when François Chouteau established Chouteau's Landing.

Between 1986 and 2000, it was combined with Dance St. Louis to form the State Ballet of Missouri, although it remained located in Kansas City.

The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia.

It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the " western-most Eastern city " and Kansas City the " eastern-most Western city ".

The two largest Missouri rivers are the Mississippi, which defines the eastern boundary of the state, and the Missouri River, which flows from west to east through the state, essentially connecting the two largest metros, Kansas City and St. Louis.

* St. Louis Blues, member of American Football League ( 1934 ) that became the Kansas City Blues in midseason 1934

The Lewis-Clark Broncs were affiliated with various major league parent clubs, including the Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Oakland Athletics or A's.

For years, the village was little more than a trading post located in the wilderness about midway between St. Louis and Kansas City.

In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded ; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City.

His touring took him to Kansas City, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Chicago.

When the county was formed, Westville was identified as the county seat, due partly to its location at the intersection of two major railroads: the Kansas City Southern Railway and the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway.

The Texas and St. Louis Railway Company completed track through Weiner and the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railway ran through the center of the county in 1882, with the Kansas City, Ft. Scott, and Gulf Railroad opening service in east Poinsett County the following year.

* Most opponents ' fumbles recovered for touchdowns, season: 4 ; Detroit Lions, 1937 ; Chicago Bears, 1942 ; Boston ( AAFC ), 1948 ; Los Angeles Rams, 1952 ; San Francisco 49ers, 1965 ; Denver Broncos, 1984 ; St. Louis Cardinals, 1987 ; Minnesota Vikings, 1989 ; Atlanta Falcons, 1991 and 1998 ; Philadelphia Eagles, 1995 ; New Orleans Saints, 1998 ; Kansas City Chiefs, 1999.

* Most fumbles: 14, Washington Redskins ( 8 ) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers ( 6 ), November 14, 1937 ; Chicago Bears ( 7 ) vs. Cleveland Browns ( 7 ), November 24, 1940 ; St. Louis Cardinals ( 8 ) vs. New York Giants ( 6 ), September 17, 1961 ; Kansas City Chiefs vs. Houston Oilers, October 12, 1969.

Chicago and its suburbs form the largest metropolitan statistical area with 9. 8 million people, followed by Metro Detroit, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Greater St. Louis, Greater Cleveland, and the Kansas City metro area.

In the 20th century, African American migration from the Southern United States into the Midwestern states changed Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis, and many other cities in the Midwest dramatically, as factories and schools enticed families by the thousands to new opportunities.

In 1911, the town was served by five railroad lines: Alabama Great Southern ( Queen & Crescent route ), the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham ( St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad system ), the Birmingham Southern Railroad, and the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic railways.

Formerly, the railroad through Hardy was part of the Frisco ( St. Louis – San Francisco Railway ) which had about of trackage, and served Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.

Despite the Quad-Cities ’ status as " the largest metropolitan area between Chicago, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City ," the area remained relatively unheard of.