Theoldmole

She fell in love with baseball because of Damn Yankees, and she roots for the Yankees?

SL and San Diego Templeton

Still waiting for my copy.

Looks like Barry was drafted, but never made it. Probably picked up some contacts, tho

Yep - here's the website I've seen Trager's name on.http://www.lordbuckley.com/LBC/LBC_Misc_Pages/LBC.html[/url]

Lord Buckley was a comic saint.

Looked it up on Amazon -- Oliver Trager -- isn't he the guy who has the Lord Buckley website?

I'm the type who has to crap faster.

I went back to it again, after losing faith in the Elvis book, and it made my head hurt. I've come to the conclusion it's unreadable. So...time to move on to something else, which at the moment is an old John Dickson Carr mystery I picked up in hardcover for a buck from a local used bookstore. Carr specialized in locked room murders, but no one's gotten killed yet in this, so I can't give you any specifics.

Picked up two books at the same time, that were on my bookshelf and I had never read ... Griel Marcus' book on Dylan and the Basement Tapes, and a bio of Elvis, "Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley" by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske. I was finding Marcus's literary flourishes too much to take, so I settled in with the bio of Elvis, which was interesting -- not enough on the music, but seemed to be good on the life. I found out that Elvis has relatives named Richards, so we may be related. And it was written in a fairly neutral biographical style.I ran across a reference to Wilbur Clarke's Desert Inn, which I was fairly sure was wrong -- but just a typo, I assumed (it was, in fact, Wilbur Clark, although Wikipedia has it as Clarke). Then in the next paragraph, the authors refer to Billy Wood and the Dominoes, which started to bother me a little more. But OK, I guessed I could live with that. But now I'm at a point where the authors are saying that Elvis's first album, Elvis, contained "Heartbreak Hotel." Well, Elvis was his second album -- Elvis Presley was his first. And "Heartbreak Hotel" wasn't on either of them.So how much else are they getting wrong?

]Or maybe posting stupid stuff gets you ignored. Hmmm...how does that explain me?

I like the "Mets win" part.

That's right...it's Edgy that no one likes. Edgy, for a small consultant's fee.....

What happened to Rico Brogna, good fit?

Cooby, the sad truth is that nobody here likes you. Except me. But for a small consultant's fee, I can fix that. My four-week course on How To Win Friends And Influence People is accepting enrollments now...

Rickey was a pioneer SABRmetrician -- I remember an article he wrote in Life explaining why batting average was an outmoded statistic and we needed to concentrate on things like OBP. It makes perfect sense that he'd do it to have more negative stats to concentrate on in contract negotiations. Once again. Frank Thomas...wotta guy!

Starter has to go 5 to get a win. Pedro would get the win.

It occurs to me that you would never see a thread with this title at Penthouse Forum.

KC, is that you climbing? My 5-year-old best pal has fallen in love with the sport. Here he is, indoors and out.

Found and ordered from the Philadelphia Athletics site.

Just about to order it. Should I go to Amazon, or is there a more direct route so more of the profits go to Frank?

Dick Young's nickname for Rickey was "El Cheapo." I just ordered Frank's book.

Let's hope it remains a rumor.

Not bad, but too long.

]the team did a study that showed the shorter fence would have resulted in approximately 11 more home runs last year, five for the Padres. This would be a net loss for the home team, then, wouldn't it?