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Audio: Waite Hoyt Telling Cool Old Babe Ruth Stories During Rain Delays
Here's an old record I picked up along the way. Thought you guys might dig it....
Lahr and Buscemi: Who You Callin' Funny-Lookin?
John Lahr's first book was a biography of his father, Bert Lahr, Notes on a Cowardly Lion....
Gene Mack's Stadium Illustrations
Over at Baseball-Fever check out the baseball park illustrations Gene Mack did for the Sporting News in 1946-47. ...
You Know How To Whistle, Don't You Steve?
On a fishing trip in 1939, film director Howard Hawks told Ernest Hemingway:...
Paintings By Kids
There's some cool artwork by kids in this book by Yankee outfield Curtis Granderson....
Talk Is Cheap
I love to talk but when it comes to writing I've learned that you can talk a story out before you’ve finished–or even started–writing. Some talking is good because it helps formulate your thinking but it can go too far....
GQ
Up North Trips gives us some of GQ's basketball covers. I remember most of these issues well—from our man Peter Richmond's heyday at the magazine. ...
Do You Quit A Book You Don't Like Or Do You Keep Reading?
I’ve never had the desire to finish a book that I don’t enjoy. If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 20 or 30 pages, I’ll put it down. No guilt. But I’ve also put down books after a hundred pages, books I admire, simply because I’m distracted. It’s me, not the book....
Krazy Kat Turns 100
And Fantagraphics has a sale. Dun't zleep....
The End Of The Affair
I haven’t read anything by Graham Greene in a long time but he came to mind when I read about this book by Pico Iyer. Check out this excerpt from The Los Angeles Review of Books:...
Breaking Training
Josh Wilker explains his love for The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training:...
And The Nobel Prize Goes To...
Last week Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature. ...
Out My Window
Katerina Cizek’s Out My Window project is seriously dope. ...
Deez Nuts
This is fun. Thanks to Mark Drew for making 'em and Ego Trip for pointing 'em out....
Hot Rods In HDR
From the cool design site, Abduzeedo, dig this post on Hot Rods in HDR. ...
A Tribute to Bill Eppridge
Dig SI's tribute to the late Bill Eppridge. ...
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: Annotated
Over at the Neiman Storyboard, Elon Green talks to Gay Talese about Talese's classic Esquire story, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." ...