This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lAB.2ACE/1408.1438.1443.1440.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I was researching the 1940 world series, and I came across a small article John Curtsinger, 22 years old, must push an egg with his nose for one block along downtown Fountain Square. He bet on the Detroit Tigers to win the world series. from the Associated Press, taken from the Times-Picayune, Oct 9, 1940, p. 14 Not very helpful for genealogists, but I thought his family might enjoy hearing about it.