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

5/3/2008:
Dale Davis, who lost his sight to macular degeneration 11 years earlier, bowls a perfect game at the Century Lanes in Des Moines, Iowa. The 78-year-old Davis bowls by finding the raised dots that line the lanes, then relies on friends and his own hearing to let him know how he did. In his first three games on this May evening, he bowls a 160, a 150 and a 185. His average for the season in 180.

Birthdays:
Sugar Ray Robinson b. 1920
Garfield Heard b. 1948
Rod Langway b. 1953
Jeff Hornacek b. 1963
Ron Hertall b. 1964

Packers Fact:
Speedy running back and return man Travis Williams' (1967-1970) nickname was "Roadrunner".

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PERENNIAL CLASSIC

In May of 1939 Random House published what may well be the best Hollywood novel ever written: The Day of the Locust. We would like to recommend that you give it a reread; enjoy Nathanael West’s portrait of Tinsel Town, and America, through his characterizations of artist and scenery painter Tod Hackett, movie extra Faye Greener, dully frustrated Homer Simpson, and a cast of thousands. If you should buy the Library of America volume, you will also get everything else West wrote, including the hilarious and poignant Miss Lonelyhearts.

NOVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS: THE DREAM LIFE OF BALSO SNELL, MISS LONELYHEARTS, A COOL MILLION, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST, OTHER WRITINGS, LETTERS, by Nathanael West (Library of America, 1997)