Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 8/4/2011

8/4/1982:
Center fielder Joel Youngblood collects hits off two Hall of Famers while playing for two different teams in one day. As a member of the Mets, Youngblood strokes a two-run single against Ferguson Jenkins in a 7-4 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. He's taken out of the game after the third inning and informed that he's been traded to the Expos for a player to be named later. He hops a plane for Philadelphia and arrives at Veterans Stadium during an Expo game against the Phillies. Batting in the seventh inning, he singles off Steve Carlton.

Birthdays:
Maurice "Rocket" Richard b. 1921
Dallas Green b. 1934
Mary Decker Slaney b. 1958
Roger Clemens b. 1962
Jeff Gordon b. 1971

Packers Fact:
Quarterback Tobin Rote led the Packers in rushing three times in the 1950s. He played for the club from 1950 to 1956.

ON HELPFUL HINTS FROM THE WEATHER CHANNEL

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DO NOT DROWN

warning on the Weather Channel to Denver-area viewers during flood coverage (thanks to Garrick S.)

BETTER THE COTTAGE
WHERE ONE IS MERRY
THAN THE PALACE
WHERE ONE WEEPS.

—Chinese proverb

DELISH DISH

One Fifth Avenue, an attractive Art Deco building at Washington Square, is one of Manhattan’s most desirable addresses. Candace Bushnell uses it as the setting for her witty and entertaining chick-lit novel about what the would-be upwardly socially mobile will do when a major socialite dies and her prime penthouse apartment becomes available. Another knowing, sharp satire from the author of Sex and the City.

ONE FIFTH AVENUE, by Candace Bushnell (Voice, 2008)