Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/5/2011

Manager Casey Stengel, when asked about the potential of Mets prospect Greg Goossen in 1965: "We got a young catcher right here. He's 20 years old, and in 10 years he's got a chance to be 30."

Birthdays:
Elmer Valo b. 1921
Scott Skiles b. 1964
Michael Irvin b. 1966
Paul Konerko b. 1976
Wally Szczerbiak b. 1977

Packers Fact:
The only Packers' rookie to play in all 16 regular-season games in 2008 was wide receiver Jordy Nelson, a second-round choice.

ON SEX AND THE CITY
STARS, TRULY ROCKET
SCIENTISTS

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I have to be involved, literally, down to splitting atoms.

actress Sarah Jessica Parker, on her clothing line

“Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’”

—RICHARD CARLSON, American psychotherapist and writer, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

RAVE REVIEWS

While he is still a child, T learns the levers of business, the value of a dollar. Then he grows up to be a real estate developer. Over the course of his life, however, he suffers heartache and loss and develops a growing interest in animals and the natural world. In Lydia Millet’s hands the rather vague story becomes wickedly funny, then tragic, then so much else. Publishers Weekly calls this work “lyrical, haunting, or deliciously absurd.” Millet writes fiction with a message (having to do with the loss of our Earth) that is nonetheless a pleasure to read.

HOW THE DEAD DREAM, by Lydia Millet (Counterpoint, 2008)