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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Aug 25, 2022 19:17:31 GMT
1/4 of the way through 'TKO' I just bought.
Love it.
About a social worker who is a counselor and happens to be a professional boxer. He's not a tomato can but he's not an upper echelon fighter either (hence his counselor job)
He's been assigned a guy who just got let out of jail for committing 4 murders as a youth. He got let out - and now there's a copycat murderer and everybody thinks it's him besides his boxing counselor
Love it 
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 21, 2022 15:36:46 GMT
TheGoodMan19 this sounds fun, read it?  "The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife," by Brad Balukjian (University of Nebraska Press). Balukjian, a biology teacher and childhood baseball card collector, set out on an unusual quest. He bought an unopened pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, opened it, and tracked down the 14 players whose cards were in the pack (card No. 15 was a checklist). The resulting road trip is an entertaining, often surprisingly honest journey for the writer and his subjects, exploring their lives in and after the game. Among the most engaging chapters are those on two players with '86 Brewers cards: pitcher Jaime Cocanower, whose time in the game was always uneasy (and whose wife has some choice words for Brewers management), and third baseman Randy Ready, who keeps coming back. Jamie Cocanower, Randy Ready and a checklist? What a shitty pack
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Post by Selgovae on Nov 21, 2022 16:00:00 GMT
That was a good read, and the film is worth seeing too. He was a year below me at school in Ayrshire aka Scotland's Arkansas, and was mercilessly bullied for being the son of a cop. I must confess I'm baffled that he actually kept on living there, I myself escaped almost four decades ago.
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