Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 8/15/2007

8/15/1975:
Brilliant but cantankerous Orioles manager Earl Weaver gets himself ejected from both games of a twi-night doubleheader as the Birds split a pair with the Texas Rangers at Memorial Stadium. After getting tossed in the opener by Ron Luciano while arguing about a double play, Weaver continues his harangue while exchanging the lineup cards for the nightcap and is again sent packing. Weaver just might have wanted an easy night anyway. He's scheduled to miss tomorrow night's game and fly to St. Louis to give away his daughter in marriage.

Birthdays:
Lionel Taylor b. 1936
Ivan Boldirev b. 1949
Craig MacTavish b. 1958
Scott Brosius b. 1966
Yancey Thigpen b. 1969

THRILLERS

“As much a blazing good yarn as it is an exceptional piece of scholarship.”—San Francisco Chronicle

If four Princeton students can crack the code in a mysterious Renaissance-era book, they will learn the location of a treasure buried in Rome...But someone might die in the process. Crackles with intrigue and creepy academic atmosphere.

THE RULE OF FOUR, by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, 2005)

If you’d like to know the true story of the Renaissance text Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read The Real Rule of Four, by scholar Joscelyn Godwin (The Disinformation Company, 2005).