Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 4/18/2011

4/18/1942:
The Toronto Maple Leafs cap a tremendous comeback by beating the Detroit Red Wings, 3-1, in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. The Maple Leafs lost the first three games of the series, 3-2 and 4-2 in Toronto and 5-2 in Detroit. In Game 4 in Detroit, they trailed 3-2 in the third period and it looked like a miracle win for the Red Wings, who had finished fifth among seven teams in the regular season with a record of 19-25-4. But the Maple Leafs rallied to win that game, 4-3, and went on to win the next two, 9-3 in Toronto and 3-0 in Detroit. With tonight's triumph, they become the first team to win after trailing three games to none in a Stanley Cup final, and NBA final or a World Series.

Birthdays:
Don Ohl b. 1936
Pete Gogolak b. 1942
Wilber Marshall b. 1962
Rico Brogna b. 1970
Haile Gebrselassie b. 1973

Packers Fact:
Linebacker Mike Douglass was the Packers' top tackler three times in four seasons beginning in 1980.

ON BOOKS WE GOTTA READ

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• The Large Sieve and Its Applications

• The Potatoes of Bolivia: Their Breeding Value and Evolutionary Relationships

actual book titles

“We’re lost, but we’re making good time!”

—YOGI BERRA, American baseball player, on his way to Cooperstown, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame

MISS GRADWYN REGRETS

Baroness James of Holland Park, P. D. James to you, has produced at least one more elegant mystery for her masterful Adam Dalgleish to solve before he retires into the loving arms of his word-clever Emma. At a private clinic, located in a Dorset manor house, Rhoda Gradwyn has a renowned plastic surgeon remove a scar from her face, which he successfully does. Then the unfortunate Miss Gradwyn is strangled in her bed. At the age of 88 the baroness has not lost her way with compelling character and ingenious plot.

THE PRIVATE PATIENT, by P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James (Knopf, 2008)