Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 9/13/2007

Rosh Hashanah
Ramadan
9/13/1936:
Seventeen-year-old Bob Feller fans 17 Philadelphia Athletics to break Rube Waddell's American League record of 16 strikeouts in a game and tie Dizzy Dean's modern big-league record as Cleveland beats the A's 5-2, at League Park. The prodigy from Van Meter, Iowa, will go on to an illustrious career, winning 266 games with 3 no-hitters, 12 one-hitters and 7 AL strikeout crowns despite missing almost four years to serve in World War II.

Birthdays:
Emile Francis b. 1926
Rick Wise b. 1945
Denny Neagle b. 1968
Bernie Williams b. 1968
Goran Ivanisevic b. 1971


“My name is David Tennant, M.D. I’m professor of ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School, and if you’re watching this tape, I’m dead.”

Provocative start, breakneck middle, explosive end. Iles is at his best in this thriller about a team of scientists working on a supercomputer that comes to life and threatens to destroy the world. Nelson DeMille says that “even the most jaded techno-thriller, Biblical doomsday, read-it-all-before reader will slide to the edge of his or her seat.” And Dan Brown calls it “an alarming, believable, and utterly consuming tale of good and evil, of destiny and choice.”

THE FOOTPRINTS OF GOD, by Greg Iles (Pocket Star, 2004)