Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 05/08/2008

6/8/1950:
The Boston Red Sox annihilate the St. Louis Browns, 29-4, at Fenway Park, setting numerous team and individual batting marks. Boston right fielder Al Zarilla has a five-hit game, including a record-tying four doubles. He becomes the first man ever to have four doubles in one game and two triples in one inning, a feat he accomplished while playing for the Browns in 1946.

Birthdays:
Byron "Whizzer" White b. 1917
Del Ennis b. 1925
Herb Adderley b. 1939
Willie Davenport b. 1943
Lindsay Davenport b. 1976

DUBYA’S LIFE

George has cobbled together this must-read and long-awaited autobiography with the help of his good buddies Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of The Onion, and public radio producer Peter Hilleren. The soon-to-be former president thought it was time for “a little bit of common-sense biographizing” to counteract the sometimes mean-spirited press he receives. It takes a great man to air his own dirty laundry. Read about his hardscrabble beginnings as a wealthy oil scion; see his altered report cards and Dad’s note to the Yale admissions office; get the inside scoop on “The Clown-Faced Zombie I Call My Wife.”

DESTINED FOR DESTINY: THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE W. BUSH, by Scott Dikkers and Peter Hilleren (Scribner, 2006)