Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 10/10/2011

10/10/1926:

The Cardinals win their first World Series with a 3-2 triumph over the Yankees in Game 7 in New York. The score stands at 3-2 in the New York seventh with the bases loaded and two out. St. Louis manager Rogers Hornsby gambles by sending in 39-year-old Grover Alexander to relieve Jesse Haines, whose pitching hand had developed a blister. Alexander, who pitched a complete-game victory yesterday and reportedly celebrated far into the evening, strikes out Tony Lazzeri to end the rally and sets down the Yanks in order in the eighth. With two out in the ninth, he walks Babe Ruth, who impulsively tries to steal second and is thrown out to end the game.

 

Birthdays:

Gus Williams b. 19253

Norm Nixon b. 1955

Brett Favre b. 1969

Pat Burrell b. 1976

Troy Tulowitzki b. 1984

 

Packers Fact:

On this date in 1969, Brett Favre was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. Favre played 16 seasons in Green Bay beginning in 1992.

“Be thankful for small mercies.”

—JAMES JOYCE, Irish writer

ON HOTEL MANAGERS, OVERLY INTRUSIVE

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We hope you want to drop in. I give personal look to the interior wants of each guest.

in a hotel brochure in the Dolomites, Italy

A LIGHTER SIDE

If you read the Los Angeles Times (where a running discussion appeared in “Jacket Copy”) or Playboy (where this spoof was first serialized), you’ve already heard of or read this wisecracking L.A. Confidential sendup from National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke). Jimmy Luntz, an affable small-time hood and gambler, is in a lot of trouble with the underworld powers that be. While hiding out with the beautiful, if troubled, Anita, whose prosecutor husband set her up to take the fall for his million-dollar embezzlements, Luntz works on a plan to recoup the money. When the bad guys track them down, the pulp fiction implodes, in this breezy, enjoyable read that shows the lighter side of one of our contemporary masters.

NOBODY MOVE, by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)