I read these two book consecutively. Ball Four by Jim Bouton is “the” baseball classic. The ultimate insiders look at what really happens in the clubhouse. Maybe it was controversial in 1970, but today, it all seemed pretty tame. Baseball players cheat…
Many of the Queensryche sites on the Web are bitching about this album. Then again, I’m pretty sure these are the same people that have bitched about every album since Mindcrime. Look, Operation Mindcrime was a classic, maybe one of the 10 best rock al…
My monthly Village Records email described these guys as “John Mellencamp fronting The Replacements.”
3 minutes later I had ordered the CD from them without even bothering to search for MP3 samples. Sometimes you just gotta have faith.
My faith was rew…
Simply put, Wil’s first effort at publishing is a winner. The book is thin, containing 5 stories that didn’t make the cut for his still in the works autobiography, Just a Geek. I read it cover to cover on the commute home one day. That not to imply the…
Today I was coaching third base in Little League. Nomar Jr hit a sharp grounder to third, which was fielded cleanly by the 3rd baseman. She (yes, a girl) air mailed the throw to first which resulted in Nomar ending up at second and a run scoring. The o…
What if the Sox hadn’t sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees? What if the Kennedys, and not Tom Yawkey had bought the team? What if Ted Williams didn’t miss 6 years due to military service? For that matter, what if Bill Lee had been pitching against Bucky Dent…
Bambino’s Curse writes about baseball uniforms today.
It seems like Little League uniforms have gone downhill since I was a kid. When I played, we were issued real uniforms. Button up jerseys, the color coordinated stirrup socks, etc. Nomar Jr. this ye…
I had a rather eventful ride home from Little League with Nomar Jr. They won by forfeit as the other team only had 7 kids show up. We loaned them a couple of ours (we had 13) to play a scrimmage game, but it was called due to lightning in the 2nd innin…
The subtitle is The Origins of the Internet, and that is a perfect description. It’s a history book, starting with the first experiments in computer networking in the early 60’s, driven by research contracts handed out by APRA, and ending in 1994 at a …
Mark Horne found this interesting review of a book neither of us has read, Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, by Alissa Quart. It’s an expose on just how hard Madison Ave is working to sell to your teenagers. Unfortunately, they are quite su…
