AP Historical Hard Drive 1997

With men on deck, men struggling in the sea, a burst of flame, swirling waters, and the sea swallows the proud Spanish destroyer, the

Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds, limbers up during spring training at Tampa, Florida, March 11, 1938. (AP Photo)

Jack Kennedy, son of the U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, was one of several Kennedy children who stayed behind when his father went to London as Am...

Casey Stengel, Boston Beekeeper, wasn't developing a new hitchhiking technique. He was giving the come on signal to a base runner when this picture w...

Unsmiling Bill Terry, manager of the New York Giants, is shown as he hustled 'em up at the Baton Rouge, La., training camp, March 2, 1938. Bill was h...

Actor Rex Ingram is seen in the role of Jean Christophe in the play

Bob Feller, the 19-year-old schoolboy hurler from Van Meter, Iowa, is shown with a high kick preparing for a hefty toss at the spring training camp of...

For the first time in many years Tony Lazzeri is wearing a uniform other than that of the world's champion New York Yankees. Engaged this season as a...

Joe DiMaggio, left, and Carl Hubbell, right, display the trophies they received January 25, 1938 at the annual banquet of the Philadelphia Sporting Wr...

Joe DiMaggio, hat and cigarette in hand, leaves the New York Yankees offices of proprietor, Col. Jacob Ruppert, January 22, 1938. Joe hopes to have h...

Jimmie Foxx, Boston first sacker, was named the Most Valuable Player of the American League by a landslide vote in New York on November 2, 1938. The...

Actor Ronald Reagan poses for a publicity portrait in 1938 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Japanese troops that captured the Chinese capital of Nanking on Dec. 14, 1937 cheer and wave their flags after they breached the city's historic walls...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is seen in this Nov. 12, 1937 photo on the night that he asserted in a

President Franklin D. Roosevelt talks to the nation in a fireside chat from the White House in this November 1937 photo. FDR introduced his radio tal...

Fans of Joe DiMaggio, heralded Yankee, crowd their hero for autographs after the third World Series game in New York City on October 8, 1937. (AP Pho...

Center fielder Joe DiMaggio has the moral support of his brother, Dominic DiMaggio (center) and his father, Joe DiMaggio, Sr., (right) for the World S...

Left to right: Vernon

President Franklin Roosevelt is at the Grand Coulee Dam site in Washington on October 2, 1937, during his tour of inspection of federal projects in t...

Times Square, amusement hub of New York City, was mass confusion September 19, 1937, when convening American Legionnaires tied up traffic with their h...

This was the scene as Nazi troops staged a sham battle in Nuremberg, Germany, September 12, 1937, at the conclusion of the party congress. Chancellor...

New York Yankees players Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Bill Dickey, left to right, are shown as they arrive in Boston, Ma., August 10, 1937. (AP Pho...

Father Divine, whose followers call him God, rolls along Lennox Avenue in New York's Harlem section on July 31, 1937, while his followers celebrate th...

Frankie Frisch, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals is feeling pretty glum these days as his charges continue to stay way down in the standings on July...

A throng at Penn Station greeted two of the five Scottsboro boys recently freed, upon arrival in New York July 26, 1937. Officers are shown escorting...

Samuel Leibowitz, New York attorney, who after a four year court battle has been credited with saving from death all but one of nine Negro prisoners h...

Jim Bottomley, who gained the nickname of

Evangelist Bishop Marcelino Mamed

These hard-hitting American Leaguers are all set, July 7, 1937, to tear into National League pitching. Named to play in the All-Star game at Griffith...

Johnny Woodruff, Pitt's Olympic champion, winning the 800 meter run in the AAU track and field championships, July 3, 1937. Woodruff won by six yards...

Charles Ruffing, pitching and pinch hitting star of the league leading New York Yankees is shown at bat June 25, 1937. (AP Photo)

Steel strikers and members of their families in Ohio, wageless since four big steel mills in Greater Youngstown were tied up, are shown in a bread lin...

Professor Albert Einstein presses a telegraph key to open officially the greater Texas and Pan-American Exposition at Dallas, June 13, 1937. (AP Phot...

This picture of President Roosevelt and his granddaughter, Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, was taken as they looked through the train window, May 13, 1937, i...

This photo, taken at almost the split second that the Hindenburg exploded, shows the 804-foot German zeppelin just before the second and third explosi...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and young Rep. Lyndon Johnson, D-Texas, became fast friends when Johnson early pitched into the middle of the battle f...

Famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, pose in front of their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in Los Angeles at the end of May, 19...

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis heard all about Joe DiMaggio's tonsillectomy when the two met at Yankee Stadium before today's game between the Yankees...

A comparatively unknown distance runner, Walter Young, of Verdun, Quebec, is shown winning the grueling Boston Marathon race on April 19, 1937. Young...

Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians fireballer, is shown in full windup action on April 17, 1937. (AP Photo)

Phillip Murray, left, vice president of the United Mine Workers of America, is shown with his boss, John L. Lewis, on April 8, 1937, in Pittsburgh, Pa...

A one-day shutdown in the soft coal industry involving 460,000 miners ended April 2, 1937, when a compromise wage agreement was reached between the Un...

Washington Senator's shortstop Joe Cronin at spring training in Sarasota, Florida, March 20, 1937. (AP Photo)

Bill Dickey, star Yankees catcher, is shown in action at training camp, March 16, 1937. (AP Photo)

Infielder Jim Bottomley, left, and manager Rogers Hornsby, try out new headgear, Texas style, at the Browns training camp here, March 11, 1937. (AP Ph...

Brooklyn Dodgers manager Burleigh Grimes, right, and ace hurler Van Lingle Mungo are shown during spring training in Clearwater, Fl., on March 2, 1937...

Sonja Henie skates is seen at a figure skating exhibition at New York's Rockefeller Center skating rink, February 12, 1937. (AP Photo)

Carl Hubbell, shown in 1937, won 253 games as a left handed pitcher for the New York Giants and earned the nickname

An unidentified woman sits on the back of Franklin D. Roosevelt's own Ford Phaeton, with his personalized Georgia license plate, in 1937. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, 40, stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of...