Iron Horse-ing around

Comparing eras: NYTimes.com ran an interesting story today about an article that ran 80 years ago. Lou Gehrig was portrayed an unsophisticated mama's boy who fished for eels and ate his mama's cooking. The story is called The Iron Horse and the New Yorker Profile. The reason for the article? Derek Jeter tied Gehrig, nicknamed the Iron Horse, on the New York Yankees' career hit list.

Why should I mention this? It's interesting to compare a story from the '30s with one today. As they article said, no one would write a story like this about Jeter.

The whole thing: I love stuff like this. This sentence — 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' — uses every letter of the alphabet. Is there a z? Yes. A q? Yes. An x? yes. They're all there.

Contact: I can be reached at tgilli52@gmail.com or nc3022@yahoo.com. Also, my Twitter handle is EDITORatWORK.

More EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 12years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!