found: His Spalding's official handball guide, c1923.
found: His Believe it or not! c2004:t.p. (Robert L. Ripley, or Rip')
found: Ripley's Believe it or not!, c2007:inside flap, p. 2 of cover (Robert L. Ripley, 1890-1949; born in Santa Rosa, Calif., worked in San Francisco for 4 yrs. before moving to New York City and joining the sports dept. of The globe)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, Nov. 24, 2008(under Robert Ripley: Robert LeRoy Ripley; b. Dec. 25, 1890, Santa Rosa, Calif.; d. May 27, 1949; American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who created the world-famous Ripley's Believe it or not!)
found: NNDB WWW site, Nov. 24, 2008(Robert L. Ripley; b. LeRoy Ripley, Dec. 25, 1890, Santa Rosa, Calif.; d. May 27, 1949, New York; worked as a sports columnist in New York, and became "Robert Ripley"' when an editor suggested that "LeRoy" did not sound masculine enough; son of Isaac Davis Ripley (1854-1905) and Lillie Bell Yocka Ripley (1868-1915))
found: 1900 census via AncestryLibrary.com, Nov. 24, 2008(at 717 Orchard St., Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Calif.: Ripley, Isaac D., b. Sept. 1854, Ohio; wife, Lillie D., b. Oct. 1868, Mo.; son, Leroy, b. Dec. 1890, Calif.; daughter, Effie, b. July 1893, Calif.)
found: LC database, Nov. 24, 2008(hdg.: Ripley, Robert Le Roy, 1893-1949; usage: Robert L. Ripley, Ripley)
