Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 10/14-10/15/2009

After leaving a putt well short of its mark during a celebrity golf tournament, Yogi Berra offered some irrefutable commentary: "If I had hit it harder, I would have missed it shorter."

Birthdays:
John Wooden b. 1910
Harry Brecheen b. 1914
Charlie Joyner b. 1947
Beth Daniel b. 1956
Joe Girardi b. 1964

Packers Fact:Charley Brock was a standout center and linebacker for the Packers from 1939 to 1947. He captained Green Bay's NFL champs in 1944.

PARTY TIME

Hard to classify but easy to love, I Like You is part cookbook, part entertaining guide, and 100 percent hilarious. This lavishly illustrated volume from quirky actress and comic Amy Sedaris offers tips on dealing with vomit stains, nosy guests, makeup, RSVPs, panty hose, and much more.

I LIKE YOU: HOSPITALITY UNDER THE INFLUENCE, by Amy Sedaris (Grand Central Publishing, 2006)

10/15/1912:
Led by saloonkeeper 'Nuf Ced McGreevy, ardent Red Sox fans known as "the Royal rooters" precipitate a chaotic hour-long delay before today's World Series game at Fenway Park. Finding that their normal seats had been sold to other fans, they mill about on the playing field until mounted policemen shunt them to the overflow area behind the outfield ropes. After this madcap prelude, it becomes a bad day altogether for Boston as the New York Giants bomb Smokey Joe Wood for six runs in the first inning and roll to an 11-4 victory, evening the Series at three wins apiece. "The Royal Rooters" will boycott tomorrow's decisive game, but the BoSox will manage to pull out a dramatic 10-inning, 3-2 victory against the peerless Christy Mathewson to clinch the championship.

Birthdays:
John L. Sullivan b. 19858
Mel Harder b. 1909
Bobby Morrow b. 1935
Jim Palmer b. 1945
Joe Klecko b. 1953

Packers Fact:
Quarterback Cecil Isbell (1938 to 1942) was at the peak of his career when he left the Packers to become an assistant coach at his college alma mater, Purdue. He became the head coach in 1944.


Think of Barker and Llewelyn as the investigators to go to when Holmes and Watson are busy. When a girl goes missing in the East End of London, an early diagnosis that white slavers abducted her gives way to darker possibilities involving a secret society called the Hellfire Conspiracy. This is the fourth in what is “fast becoming one of the genre’s best historical-mystery series.” (Booklist)

THE HELLFIRE CONSPIRACY, by Will Thomas (Touchstone, 2007)