Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/22/2011

3/22/1993:
A boating accident on Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida, claims the lives of Cleveland Indians pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews and leaves Bobby Ojeda seriously injured. Just after dark, the three were riding in an 18-foot aluminum open-air bass fighting boat piloted by Crews when they slammed into the side of a pier at high speed. Olin was 27 years old; Crews was 31. Ojeda will undergo surgery to reattach his scalp and return to the Indians in August of this year.

Birthdays:
Billy Vessels b. 1931
Bob Costas b. 1952
Glenallen Hill b. 1965
Shawn Bradley b. 1972
Marcus Camby b. 1974

Birthdays:
The Packers drafted cornerback Herb Adderley out of Michigan State in the first round in 1961. He went on to play nine seasons in Green Bay, and eventually was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

ON THOSE MIGHTY ROTARIANS

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Had an Optimist, Co-operative, Exchange, Lions, Kiwanis, or a Rotary Club flourished in the days of Exodus with . . . Moses as president, the children of Israel would have reached the promised land in forty days instead of forty years.

Stewart C. McFarland in The Rotarian, 1924

“You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.”

—MURIEL SPARK, Scottish novelist

TUESDAYS WITH ENZO

Break out the lap rug and slippers and burrow into the warm, fuzzy worldview of Enzo, the Swift family dog, who proves that not only can an old dog learn new tricks, he can teach a few to humans as well. On the brink of dying, which Enzo tells us can mean reincarnation as a man if one is truly ready—and he is—he tells of the many things that make up his love for Denny Swift, an aspiring race-car driver; Denny’s wife, Eve, who has died; and their daughter, Zoë, whom Denny almost lost in a wrenching custody battle.

THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein (Harper, 2009)