1. During the 1927 Barnstorming tour, Ruth and Gehrig visited Boys Town orphanage in Omaha, founded a decade earlier by Father Edward Flanagan

2. Randy Pausch, the professor whose “last lecture” made him a Lou-Gehrig-like symbol of the beauty and Briefness of life, died Friday at his home in …

3. MLB Embraces Negro Leagues, More or Less In 1927 a black team, the Royal Giants, Barnstormed Japan, preceding the 1934 tour of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx.