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Lou Gehrig Helped Hawthorne Teen With His Homework Lou Gehrig Helped Hawthorne Teen With His Homework
Lou Gehrig Helped Hawthorne Teen With His Homework The assignment was to explore a vocation of interest and talk to a professional -- so naturally, a Hawthorne teen wrote to baseball great Lou Gehrig, the New York Post reports. In May 1938, Tom Templeton sent 10 questions to Gehrig asking about what it's like to be a professional ball player, the hours, salary and drawbacks. Sure enough, a response came for Templeton in the mail the following week when the assignment was due. The hours were afternoons, pay was $250 a week (which amounts to $4,279.93 today and drawbacks were none. The pair of letters between the famed Iron Horse and Temple…

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by Cecilia Levine