Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 10/8/2011

Jim Bouton in his book Ball Four, published in 1970: "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
 
Birthdays:
Billy Conn b. 1917
Fred Stolle b. 1938
Paul Splittorff b. 1946
Rashaan Salaam b. 1974
Amos Zereoue b. 1976

Packers Fact:
Pro Football Hall of Fame fullback Jim Taylor (1958-1966) wore number 31.

“Shoulders are from God and burdens too.”

—ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, Polish-American writer

ON FORGET WE ASKED

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Sportscaster: Do the Broncos have your number, Christian?

Kansas City running back Christain Okoye: Do they have my number? I don’t know. Do they have a guy with the number 35?

REBEL WITH A CAUSE

Elizabeth Dawes admits that she’s been stalking Camus for more than 50 years. When Camus’s daughter published her father’s autobiographical novel, The First Man, in 1994, Dawes was again fired by love of her subject and set out to try to understand the mystique of the highly principled novelist, journalist, and philosophe, who was only 46 when he died in a car accident in 1960. The combination literary study and personal memoir is engaging and revealing, both of Dawes and of a thinker who holds a fascination for, and is revered by, many.

CAMUS, A ROMANCE, by Elizabeth Dawes (Grove Press, 2009)