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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 4, 2021 2:14:35 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
that's what makes an interesting book!
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Post by fjenkins on Sept 7, 2021 22:33:11 GMT
I need more suggestions. These two books are not at my library. The last three i got sucked. KD alphabet was f'ing awful. Got one on the nobody knows your name minors book and it was poorly written.
Trying to find some good sports books I haven't read now that the library is back open.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 8, 2021 0:15:48 GMT
I need more suggestions. These two books are not at my library. The last three i got sucked. KD alphabet was f'ing awful. Got one on the nobody knows your name minors book and it was poorly written. Trying to find some good sports books I haven't read now that the library is back open. 
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Post by fjenkins on Sept 8, 2021 18:20:49 GMT
I need more suggestions. These two books are not at my library. The last three i got sucked. KD alphabet was f'ing awful. Got one on the nobody knows your name minors book and it was poorly written. Trying to find some good sports books I haven't read now that the library is back open. Am looking for right now, thanks
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 22, 2021 12:38:33 GMT
What is everyone reading?
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Post by fjenkins on Sept 22, 2021 15:05:49 GMT
What is everyone reading? I can't find ANY good baseball or sports books at the library that I haven't read already. I'm onto Trump books, reserved Woodward's new one and the one that goes over all Trumps lies.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 24, 2021 21:06:47 GMT
What is everyone reading? I can't find ANY good baseball or sports books at the library that I haven't read already. I'm onto Trump books, reserved Woodward's new one and the one that goes over all Trumps lies. my uncles is sorta pals with bob woodward, tiny guy. this was pretty good. 
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 24, 2021 21:41:09 GMT
I can't find ANY good baseball or sports books at the library that I haven't read already. I'm onto Trump books, reserved Woodward's new one and the one that goes over all Trumps lies. my uncles is sorta pals with bob woodward, tiny guy. this was pretty good. They kept saying something about some guy named Merkle's "boner". Heh, heh, heh, heh, "boner"
It was a good book
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 25, 2021 19:59:38 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 26, 2021 1:29:06 GMT
 www.goodreads.com/book/show/29515470-the-road-to-madnessGood one. Fun stuff, Walton, UCLA's winning streak busted. NC State. The '74 ACC Final, the 1974 ACC Final, up with the Laettner Game as the greatest CBB game ever. Winner goes to the NCAA, loser got jack. David Thompson, Tom Burleson, Monte Towe v. Len Elmore, Tom McMillan, John Lucas, Orioles great Tim Stoddard. 103-100 in OT for the Wolf Pack. 203 pionts, with no three no shot clock. A couple things I didn't know 1. Saintly John Wooden was an ass. Eternally baiting refs. Eternally trash talking opponents. Even threats. In a game against Notre Dame, he told Digger Phelps if ND center John Schumate didn't stop defending Bill Walton so closely, he would send in the 7'4" gorilla Swen Nater with the sole purpose of hurting Schumate. Wooden comes off as a saint but I'm never convinced he didn't know about the UCLA shenanigans. Booster Sam Gilbert paid players for everything, including girlfriends abortions. If the NCAA investigated, few of those banners would hang at Pauley Pavilion. 2. The NCAA Tournament was a joke. 25 teams, that's it. Only conference champs went. In the march 4th AP poll, only four of the top seven made the "dance", Two Pac-8 teams, UCLA, USC, three ACC teams, NC State, UNC and Maryland. And the first round games were played before the bigconferences, Pac, Big 10 and ACC determined their champs. Be fun to pick your bracket, no. This season, especially the ACC title game led to the expansion of the Tourney.
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