Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 04/27/2008

4/27/1974:
The Yankees obtain first baseman Chris Chambliss from the Indians as the focus of a seven-player trade. Chambliss is the only position player in the deal, which sees relievers Dick Tidrow and Cecil Upshaw also head to New York and Fritz Peterson, Steve Kline, Fred Beene and Tom Buskey dealt to Cleveland. Unfortunately for the Tribe, the quantity they receive does not equal the quality they surrender in Chambliss, who will play five solid years in New York and seven more after that in Atlanta. His ninth-inning homer in the deciding game of the 1976 ALCS will clinch the pennant for the Yankees.

Birthdays:
Enos Slaughter b. 1916
Lee Roy Jordan b. 1941
Keith Magnuson b. 1947
George Gervin b. 1952
Herman Edwards b. 1954

INSIDERS’ GUIDES

“City Secrets: Rome is filled with the kind of information you would get from a friend who had spent years living in the Italian capital.”—Europe

In the City Secrets series, artists and writers write about the little corners of their cities that are among the things that make life happily worth living there. Destinations include favorite restaurants and markets, out-of-the-way parks, small galleries or lesser-known art in well-known museums, and obscure shops. Locations are mapped and clearly coded.

CITY SECRETS: NEW YORK CITY; CITY SECRETS: LONDON; CITY SECRETS: ROME; CITY SECRETS: FLORENCE, VENICE AND THE TOWNS OF ITALY, edited by Robert Kahn (Little Bookroom, 2001, 2002)