Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 8/7/2007

Commenting on the difficulty of coexisting with the Vikings at the Metrodome, Minnesota Twins president Dave St. Peter lamented: "The seats at the Metrodome are oriented to the 50-yard-line, and I've yet to find one of those on a baseball field."

Birthdays:
Don Larsen b. 1929
Abebe Bikila b. 1932
Carlos Monzon b. 1942
Alan Page b. 1945
Sidney Crosby b. 1987

MEMOIRS

The secrets of interrogation are revealed in this fascinating (and pseudonymous) memoir by a real-life army intelligence corps interrogator. Mackey captures the atmosphere of holding cells and interrogation rooms, and shines a bright light on the delicate, intense, dangerous game of getting prisoners to reveal what they know. They really do have ways of making you talk.

THE INTERROGATORS: TASK FORCE 500 AND AMERICA’S SECRET WAR AGAINST AL QAEDA, by Chris Mackey and Greg Miller (Back Bay Books, 2005)