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Rollie Hemsley One of First 100 Alcoholics Anonymous Members Sobriety Date 4-16-1939 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min
Rollie Hemsley One of First 100 Alcoholics Anonymous Members Sobriety Date 4-16-1939Number 77 on Anne Smith's list of the first 100 AA members Rollie Hemsley of Fredrick, MD; sobriety date April 16, 1939.Played for Cleveland Indians during 1930sAt 23rd anniversary of Cosmopolitan Group Washington, DC April 26, 1968AA number 77 on Ann Smiths list of Ohio AA membersBaseball player famous for his 1940 newspaper admission of being sober due to Alcoholics Anonymous29 years sober at time of talkRollie tells his story of drunken episodes and disgusted team managersOne involved a revolving door at a high class hotel, another involved assaulting a sports photographer who forced his way into Rollie's hotel roomTalks about trying a cure for his alcoholism about a year before being introduced to AAThis so-called cure was some form of aversion therapy; a prime example of pre-AA treatments Alcoholics were subjected toHow at the beginning of the season yet another drunken episode got him sent back to the team headquarters in Cleveland. A very lonely train rideThe circumstances by which he was introduced to AAHospitalized under Dr Bobs care and visited by the other early AA membersRollie mentions reading a first edition first printing (Big Red) Big BookConsidering the date of his treatment, April 1939 he may have been the first person to read the Big Book in a medically supervised detoxHis early sobriety recounts in detail how after a year of sobriety he finally told the inquisitive newspaper men that he was a sober member of Alcoholics AnonymousTalks about helping others and his life in sobrietyAt the beginning of this recording someone reads a brief history of the Cosmopolitan GroupThe Cosmopolitan Group was begun by the author of Big Book story, Jim's Story ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rollie Hemsley, Various Members of the Cosmopolitan Group, A. Bill Friend. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235092/bk_acx0_235092_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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