Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/18/2011

3/18/1953:
In the first shift of a major league franchise since March 1903, when the Baltimore Orioles moved to New York and became the Highlanders (the future Yankees), the Boston Braves announce that Milwaukee will be their new home. After drawing just 281,278 fans in Boston in 1952, the Braves will attract a new National League record of 1,826,397 this year. Their success spurs four more changes over the next four years. In 1954 the St. Louis Browns move to Baltimore and revive the Orioles nickname. In 1955 the Philadelphia Athletics transfer to Kansas City. And in 1958 the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers go west to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively.

Birthdays:
Mike Webster b. 1952
Guy Carbonneau b. 1960
Curt Warner b. 1961
Bonnie Blair b. 1964
Brian Griese b. 1975

Packers Fact:
Opposing offenses managed only a league-low 141 first downs against the Packers' pass defense in 2008.

ON NO ASSISTANCE, PLEASE!

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PLEASE DON’T TOUCH YOURSELF.
LET US HELP YOU TO TRY OUT.
THANKS!

sign (meaning PLEASE ASK FOR ASSISTANCE) in a store in China

“To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.”

—SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, English poet and philosopher

TELL IT, SISTER

There are high hopes for linguistics with Deborah Tannen in the field—her titles alone proclaim her ability to get to the heart of verbal communication (You Just Don’t Understand, on men and women, and You’re Wearing THAT? on mothers and daughters). Here Tannen turns to the competitive, potentially rewarding but often difficult world of “sisterspeak.” You know who you are, and you owe it to yourself and that significant other (or those others) to read this book.

MOM ALWAYS LIKED YOU BETTER: SISTERS IN CONVERSATION THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES, by Deborah Tannen (Random House, 2009)