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I'm too lazy to try and make the title witty.

Anyway, what's good, fictionwise and other? New, old, whatever.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I read Fantasyland last week, a WSJ columnist's year playing Tout Wars and spending $40k trying to influence players and interviewing fantasy experts. It was pretty decent for what it was, better in the lead up to the auction than after, and all the expert names bled together after a while.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Read some good things about the new Curt Flood bio -- helluva story, certainly.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

heh.

my parents were drugged and robbed at curt flood's bar in mallorca in the early 70s.

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

HEH?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

that's how they look at it. mama and papa higgins are daring world travelers. what's a couple roofies amongst friends?

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Ironically, that's exactly what I told the cops...

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Are Mike Lupica's baseball novels predictably dire?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

is the sadaharu oh book still out of print?

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I'm reading Ball Four cover to cover for the first time ... already the Ralph Houk stuff in the first 40 pages is priceless.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

I'm speaking tonight (Mon.) at 6pm at Hue-Man
Bookstore just off 125th St. in Harlem about my new
book, "A Well-Paid Slave; Curt Flood's Fight for Free
Agency in Professional" (Viking).

Brad Snyder
Author, A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Baseball's Sad Lexicon
by Franklin Pierce Adams

Published: New York Evening Mail (July 10, 1910)

These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double-
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

But Chance don't rhyme w/ shit! Sain / rain IS the shit!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Romance, Nance, glance, ants, pants, rants...

― Plaxico Polanco (Andy_K), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's very proto-Albom, btw.

― Plaxico Polanco (Andy_K), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

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