Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/27/2011

Minnesota Twins manager Billy Gardner, on his team's 93 losses by mid-season in 1983: "The way things are going for me, if I'd bought a pumpkin farm they'd cancel Halloween."

Birthdays:
Miller Huggins b. 1879
Wes Covington b. 1932
Cale Yarborough b. 1939
Chris McCarron b. 1955
Michael Cuddyer b. 1979

ON WELL PUT!

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A man could not be two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

eighteenth-century member of Parliament Sir Boyle Roche

“If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.”

—ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, English poet