Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 8/10/2010

8/10/2003:
Bronson Arroyo of the Pawtucket Red Sox pitches only the fourth nine-inning perfect game in the 121-year history of the International League, blanking Buffalo, 7-0, at McCoy Stadium. Ironically, the most recent nine-inning perfecto in that league's annals was also crafted by a Pawtucket pitcher at McCoy Stadium when Tomo Ohka blanked Charlotte in 2000. Before that, only two hurlers had achieved the feat and both pitched for Buffalo: Chet Carmichael against Jersey City in 1910 and Dick Marlowe against Baltimore in 1952.

Birthdays:
Red Holzman b. 1920
Rocky Colavito b. 1933
John Starks b. 1965
Riddick Bowe b. 1967
Samari Rolle b. 1976

Packers Fact:
The Packers opened the 2008 season with all 11 starters back from the 2007 defensive unit that ranked no. 11 in the NFL (based on total yards).


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Monthly Eyesore
It's social criticism masked as architectural criticism-every month writer James Howard Kunstler delivers his take on the degradation of the American landscape like the "pre-haunted," weed-covered McMansions blighting the suburbs, a Marriott hotel that he likens to a forensic pathology lab, a cemetery wedged between a big box store and a couple of fast food joints, the tattoo parlor's move from the back alley to Main Street, and his pet peeve-structures designed to minimize litigation-like a school playground that looks like a prison exercise yard after the lawyers got through with it.

FAR FROM HOME

The Emigrants is a singularly original and compelling novel. It challenges the very nature of fiction in the way it uses the actual to enhance the narrative, especially in its use of photographs. The lives of four exiles, a retired surgeon, a schoolteacher, an artist, and a valet, are recounted. All are Jews haunted by the Holocaust they escaped. Their memories are a way to meditate on a century of upheaval and tragedy. Susan Sontag says, “Bewitching in its subtlety, sublime in its directness and in the grandeur of its subject. The Emigrants is an irresistible book.”

THE EMIGRANTS, by W. G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hulse (New Directions, 1997)

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Golden amber with a foamy cover, Sleighor’s Double IPA boasts an elegant aroma of hops and malt, with a memorable equilibrium. This beer is fortified with complex and well-integrated alcohol content, and hops abound. Bitterness makes a statement as malt and hop flavors prance about the palate. Slieghor ages well under cool circumstances, give or take a year. A beer for contemplative evenings or long sessions of storytelling. After the first 8 ounces, it’s clear: You have found a new friend.

BEER FACT

This Imperial or double IPA has an alcohol content of 9.1%/vol. It uses Columbus hops in the boil, Centennial hops in the finish, and is dry-hopped with a combination of Columbus, Centennial, and Chinook hops.