Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 7/3/2007

7/3/1970:
Margaret Smith Court outlasts Billie Jean King, 14-12, 11-9, in one of Wimbledon's all-time best women's finals. Despite painful injuries (Mrs. Court to her left ankle, Mrs. King to her right knee), each players asks no quarter and gives none, playing aggressive, serve-and-volley tennis throughout their two-and-a-half-hour battle. Mrs. Court will sweel all four major championships this year.

Birthdays:
Frank Tanana b. 1947
Elmo Wright b. 1949
Moises Alou b. 1966
Neil O'Donnell b. 1966
Teemu Selanne b. 1970

YOU’VE NEVER READ ANTHONY TROLLOPE?

“Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy...of the writers who have helped the heart of man to know itself.”—Henry James

Trollope was a writer, like Jane Austen, who chronicled the everyday, and in his portraits of ordinary life he managed to illuminate essential truths about human nature. The Way We Live Now is his masterpiece, a satire of society and commerce in 1870s London. True love, familial duty, greed, power, and corruption mingle in a book that feels as exciting and relevant today as it did more than a hundred years ago.

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW, by Anthony Trollope (1875; Oxford University Press, 1999)