Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 5/24/2007

5/24/1964:
During an Olympic qualifying soccer game in Lima, Peru, pandemonium breaks loose after a goal that would have tied Peru with Argentina is disallowed with two minutes remaining. The riot by enraged spectators results in over 300 deaths and twice that many injured. After ransacking the National Stadium, many in the frenzied mob of over 45,000 set about vandalizing the surrounding neighborhood. The players and referee escape to a steel-enclosed locker room, and Argentina is ultimately declared the winner of the game, 1-0.

Birthdays:
Mitch Kupchak b. 1954
Joe Dumars b. 1963
Pat Verbeek b. 1964
Bartolo Colon b. 1973
Tracy McGrady b. 1979

MEMOIRS

“The most important book I’ve read in a long while.”—Barbara Kingsolver

“This Organic Life has uncommon depth of feeling.”—The New York Times Book Review

Joan Dye Gussow’s memoir of renovating a home, nurturing a vegetable garden, and living as close to the land as possible is inspiring. Read it as a blueprint or as an escape, but if you care about gardening at all, you must read it.

THIS ORGANIC LIFE: CONFESSIONS OF A SUBURBAN HOMESTEADER, by Joan Dye Gussow (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002)