Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 9/28/2007

9/28/1969:
Joe Kapp becomes the fourth quarterback in NFL history to throw seven touchdown passes as the Minnesota Vikings rout Baltimore, 52-14, at the Met in Bloomington. Kapp joins Sid Luckman, Y.A. Tittle and Adrian Burk, who by a twist of fate is helping to officiate today's game as a back judge.

Birthdays:
Alice Marble b. 1913
Tom Harmon b. 1919
Steve Largent b. 1954
Grant Fuhr b. 1962
Emeka Okafor b. 1982

NAVAL GAZING

“Astonishing...brave and electrifying.”—The New York Times Book Review

“The Outlaw Sea is impossible to put down.”—People

There is no patch of earth now that is not owned by a government, controlled, regulated. Except the ocean. Water covers three-quarters of the earth, and yet it is still frontier. Pirates, polluters, terrorists, and tsunamis, the sea remains wild. Atlantic Monthly contributor Langewiesche introduces us to the fascinating, little-known life of the sea around us.

THE OUTLAW SEA: A WORLD OF FREEDOM, CHAOS, AND CRIME, by William Langewiesche (North Point Press, 2005)