Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 9/24-25/2011

Golfer Lee Trevino, on what it means to win a major championship: "I played the Tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the U.S. Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell."


Birthdays:
Jim McKay b. 1921
John Mackey b. 1941
Mean Joe Greene b. 1946
Rafael Palmeiro b. 1964
Eddie George b. 1973

Packers Fact:
Both of Will Blackmon's punt-return touchdowns in 2008 came against the Minnesota Vikings. He had a 76-yarder at home and a 65-yarder on the road.

9/25/1955:
Playing for the Colts in his first NFL game, Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 overall draft choice Alan Ameche scores on a 79-yard run on his first carry during a 23-17 win over the Chicago Bears in Baltimore. In all, he rushes for 194 yards on 21 carries. He'll lead the league this season in rushing with 213 carries for 961 yards and 9 TDs.

Birthdays:
Phil Rizzuto b. 1918
Hubie Brown b. 1933
Bob McAdoo b. 1951
Scotti Pippen b. 1965
Chauncey Billups b. 1976

THE FUTURE
AIN’T WHAT IT
USED TO BE.

—YOGI BERRA,
American baseball player

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

—JOSEPH ADDISON, English essayist and poet

ON WHY YOU SHOULD
ALWAYS HIRE A LAWYER
TO REPRESENT YOU AT
A CRIMINAL TRIAL

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Did you get a good look at my face when I took your purse?

accused thief, who defended himself at his trial, to the alleged victim (Strangely, he got ten years.)

ON SPRING BACK AND
FALL AHEAD?

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On September 30, winter timing will start. As of 12:00 midnight all clocks will be forward one hour back.

notice posted at a Cairo, Egypt, hotel

SUMMER VACATION

Benji Cooper spends three quarters of the year at an upscale prep school, dressed in a blazer and tie. In the summers, though, his dad drives the family out to the Hamptons, where they have a place in a mostly black enclave in Sag Harbor that allows Benji to reconnect with his culture. Colson Whitehead’s autobiographical novel is a witty, knowing examination of a 15-year-old black boy’s summer of ice cream cones, early hip-hop, and (not without some guilt) ABBA, a first kiss, and a hundred insignificant things that add up to something very winning.

SAG HARBOR, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, 2009)