Missing The Moon: How About That??: Mel Allen Calls The 1948 All-Star Game

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Books I Have Read This Year

Jon Bradshaw: Fast Company (*****)
Carl Hiassen: Sick Puppy (*****)
Thane Rosenbaum: Elijah Rising (***)
Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum: I Want My MTV (*****)
Joe Eszterhas: Hollywood Animal (****)
Howard Norman: Kiss In The Hotel Joseph Conrad (****)
David Buckley: The Thrill Of It All (*****)
Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky (*****)
Dick Williams: No More Mr. Nice Guy (*****)
Alfred Kazin: Starting Out In The Thirties (****)
Peter Carey: His Illegal Self (*****)
Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain (***)
T. Coraghessan Boyle: The Road To Wellville (***)
William Shakespeare: Coriolanus (**)
Christopher Brookmyre: Not The End Of The World (***)
Barry Hannah: Bats Out Of Hell (****)
Andrzej Szczypiorski: A Mass For Arras (*****)
(ed.) Dave Eggers: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2002 (*****)
Henry Bromell: Little America (****)
Robert Penn Warren: All The King's Men (***)
Russell Shorto: Descartes' Bones (****)
Joseph Wood Krutch: If You Don't Mind My Saying So... (***)
Prof. James Robertson, D.D.: The Old Testament And Its Contents (****)
Helen DeWitt: The Last Samurai (****)
David Lehman: The Last Avant-Garde (***)
(ed.) Dave Eggers: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2009 (***)
Peter Golenbock: Fenway (*****)
Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes: P.'s Three Women (****)
David Pownall: The Raining Tree War (**)
Melvyn Bragg: Richard Burton (****)
Lydia Millet: Oh Pure And Radiant Heart (****)
Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons (*****)
Alexander Pope: Scriblerus (****)
Mickey Mantle: All My Octobers (*****)
Maureen O'Hara: 'Tis Herself (*****)
Jerzy Kosinski: Blind Date (*****)
Eric Zencey: Panama (***)
Eric Ambler: Passage Of Arms (****)
Richard Wright: Native Son (****)
P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl In Blue (*****)
Robert MacNeil: Wordstruck (****)
Keith Waterhouse: Billy Liar (****)
H.R.F. Keating: The Dog It Was That Died (****)
(ed.) Gideon Bosker and Lena Lenček: Escape (****)
Warwick Collins: The Rationalist (****)
James Conaway: Memphis Afternoons (***)
Bill Mauldin: Up Front (*****)
Josef Škvorecký: The Republic Of Whores (***)
Robert MacNeil: The Right Place At The Right Time (*****)
Ryszard Kapuściński: The Soccer War (****)
C.P. Snow: Death Under Sail (****)
Lee Durkee: Rides Of The Midway (****)
Martin Booth: The Industry Of Souls (****)
Michael Brownstein: Country Cousins (***)
(ed.) Mike Jay and Michael Neve: 1900 (*****)
Evgeny Popov: The Soul Of A Patriot (*****)
Salman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands (*****)
Louis Begley: Mistler's Exit (****)
(ed.) Ann Charters: The Portable Sixties Reader (*****)
Nicholas Dawidoff: The Catcher Was A Spy (*****)
David P. Barash & Nanelle R. Barash: Madame Bovary's Ovaries (***)
(ed.) Malcolm Bradbury: The Penguin Book Of Modern British Short Stories (****)
Reif Larsen: The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet (*****)
Ogden Nash: Ogden Nash's Zoo (*****)
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (*****)
Granta 51: Big Men (****)
Henry Miller: Europe After The War (***)
Sybille Bedford: Quicksands (*****)
David Dimbleby & David Reynolds: An Ocean Apart (****)
(ed.) Keath Fraser: Bad Trips (****)
James Ellroy: Killer On The Road (*****)
Brian Hall: The Saskiad (***)
Arnold Wesker: As Much As I Dare (****)
The Vintage Contemporaries Reader (***)
John Hersey: Life Sketches (*****)
Isak Dinesen: Out Of Africa & Shadows On The Grass (*****)
Rory Stewart: The Places In Between (****)
James McManus: Positively Fifth Street (****)
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor Of Casterbridge (*****)
Karl Shapiro: Reports Of My Death (****)
Robert Bly: Iron John (**)
Jack Higgins: Dark Justice (*****)

The Year In Cinema

: Marley (*****)
: The Avengers (**)
: Bernie (*****)
: Headhunters (*****)
: Darling Companion (*)
: Damsels In Distress (*****)
: The Three Stooges (*****)
: Rampart (*****)
: The Kid With A Bike (***)
: Mirror Mirror (*****)
: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (*****)
: The Hunger Games (****)
: Coriolanus (*****)
: A Separation (*****)
: In Darkness (****)
: Thin Ice (*****)
: The Woman In Black (*****)
: Haywire (*****)
: The Iron Lady (*****)
: Carnage (*****)
: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (*****)
: War Horse (*****)
: The Artist (*****)
: A Dangerous Method (*****)

The Slaves

C/Tyler Flowers (CWS) C/Ramon Hernandez (COL) 1B/Gaby Sanchez (MIA) 2B/Michael Cuddyer (COL) 3B/Jose Bautista (TOR) 3B/Kyle Seager (SEA) SS/Astrubal Cabrera (CLE) CM/Adam Lind (TOR) MI/Jed Lowrie (HOU) OF/Dexter Fowler (COL) OF/Brett Gardner (NYY) OF/B.J. Upton (TAM) OF/Justin Upton (ARI) OF/Dayan Viciedo (CWS) OF/Giancarlo Stanton (MIA) DH/Yuniesky Betancourt (KC) RES/Craig Gentry (TEX) RES/Alexi Casilla (MIN) RES/Jason Bourgeois (KC) RES/Tyler Pastornicky (ATL) P/Frank Francisco (NYM) P/Matt Harrison (TEX) P/Brandon McCarthy (OAK) P/Mark Buehrle (MIA) P/Jeremy Hellickson (TAM) P/Alex Cobb (TAM) P/Anibal Sanchez (MIA) P/Jordan Walden (LAA) P/Ted Lilly (LAD) RES/ Brian Roberts (BAL) RES/Jeff Niemann (TAM) RES/Juan Cruz (PIT) RES/Kevin Correia (PIT)

Extreme Tracking

September 30, 2011

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