Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 7/17/2007

7/17/1922:
Player-Manager Ty Cobb has a five-hit game for the third time this month and the fourth time this season, leading the Detroit Tigers to a 16-7 romp over Boston at Fenway Park. The Georgia Peach smacks a double and a three-run homer to go with three singles as Detroit shakes off an early five-run deficit to win handily. He'll hit over .400 for the third time in his career this season (.401) at age 35, but will fail to add to his record 12 American League batting titles. George Sisler of the Browns will win that honor with a tidy .420 mark.

Birthdays:
Lou Boudreau b. 1917
Johnny "Red" Kerr b. 1932
Daryle Lamonica b. 1941
Connie Hawkins b. 1942
Calbert Cheaney b. 1971


“Wilsey’s portrait of a scheming stepmother is...deliciously searing...and convincing.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Rollicking, ruthless, though ultimately generous-hearted.”—Vogue

“Holy moley this is a great read—probably the most compulsively readable book I’ve picked up in years.”—Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Wilsey grew up in 1980s San Francisco with a germaphobe millionaire father, an erratic socialite mother, and a wicked stepmother. His memoir of them and his wild ride of a childhood is not to be missed.

OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL, by Sean Wilsey (The Penguin Press, 2005)