Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 12/22/2007

12/22/1951:
The Toronto Maple Leafs pay tribute to their longtime goaltender Turk Broda with a special night in his honor and score two third-period goals to beat the Boston Bruins, 3-2. In 730 NHL games (regular season and playoffs) with the Leafs, the enormously popular Broda won two Vezina Trophies as the NHL's best goalie and backstopped Toronto to five Stanley Cup titles, including three in a row in 1947, '48 and '49.

Birthdays:
Steve Carlton b. 1944
Steve Garvey b. 1948
Ray Guy b. 1949
Jan Stephenson b. 1951
Ron Greschner b. 1954

BROWSING PLEASURES

Terry Gross of the National Public Radio show Fresh Air is one of the best interviewers around, eliciting fresh and unguarded insights from her subjects. This is a collection of thirty-nine interviews that are some of the most revealing and varied in her canon, including conversations with Michael Caine, Conan O’Brien, John Updike, and Johnny Cash. Think of the book, Gross’s first, as a primer on creativity.

ALL I DID WAS ASK, by Terry Gross (Hyperion, 2005)