The book that I finally finished reading - The Iowa Baseball Confederacy - was written by WP Kinsella, the author of Shoeless Joe, which was made into the movie Field of Dreams. In The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, the Tinker to Evers to Chance Chicago Cubs of 1908 travel to the small town of Big Inning, Iowa to play a team of all stars from a small regional baseball league. Years later there's no record of the game, but the main character travels back in time to prove the game took place.
At the end of nine innings the game is tied, so Frank Chance vows to play on. At dusk the game is still tied, so the game will be resumed the next morning. This continues for days and weeks, the two teams playing from dawn to dusk, thousands of innings - despite a rain shower that continues along with the game. The river floods, the town is washed away, but the game continues. President Teddy Roosevelt visits (on horseback), in an effort to end the game. All the Cubs backup players had returned to Chicago to resume the season, but fell from first place to last. An interesting read, with much more going on than just the baseball.
Last summer the Braves played the Reds in the Speedway Classic, at the Bristol Motor Speedway in western Virginia. I would've loved the special Braves cap with fire on the bill, but thought I'd missed the chance to get one.
This past winter the fitted versions were sold out in stores, and the adjustable style is always too small for my head (and double the price of other caps.
From time to time I'd check the internet for one in my size. Finally found one: my size, for a reasonable price. Just now bought it and get to pay for it spread out over four payments. Sweet cap, as if I needed another one.
Thursday: after two hours at the gym this morning, I drove out to North Point for a free large order of Steak & Shakes' beef tallow stringy french fries. Just okay. Didn't change my life. On the way home I grabbed a free Coke Zero from RaceTrac.
On Friday evening, Ceil wasn't feeling well. Saturday morning she was still sick, but she still went on a garden tour with a friend. When she got home she crashed on the couch, sick. Hardly moved until bedtime. I was full from my huge lunch at Shake Shack. Around 8:30 we finally ate leftovers. I warmed her up some leftover spaghetti.
We stayed up late and watched a good chunk of the Braves game. A good win. I enjoyed watching all the tributes to Bobby Cox.
Saturday: lunch at the Shake Shack up in Alpharetta. Burger was good but the bun was a little doughy. Spend $10 and the burger was free. Ordering through the app, I got a $5 chocolate milkshake and two $3 orders of the crinkle fries, which came out piping hot. The shake was good but not huge, and for some reason had a couple of pieces of plastic in the bottom.
Saturday morning C sent me to the Sandy Springs farmers market, but she had failed to place an order with Fry’s Farm, so it was a wasted trip. While I was out, I also stopped by (2) Goodwill, (3) Shake Shack, then back to East Cobb for (4) a haircut, (5) Whole Foods, (6) Big Peach Running Company to try on some Hokas, (7) to the Trader Joe’s in Pine Straw Plaza but the parking lot was gridlocked, (8) Kroger, (9) Dollar Tree, and (10) finally home. Mowed the lawn.
Sunday: Ceil went to church early, to keep the babies during the 8:30 hour. She said she sounded worse that she felt. We passed each other when I was driving to church. Over 43 in Sunday School, to hear about the seven college kids leaving to be summer missionaries.
After church I stopped by Whole Foods to get C some tomato parmesan soup, and flowers. I'd already given her a card, candy, and balloon. After I gave her the soup I went back to Kroger for more medicine for her.
Winnie has bad breath. We're working on a way to fix it.
Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, Kevin Durant's Board Room inexplicably listed Caitlin Clark as only the third most marketable player in the WNBA. Her college teammate Kate Martin was cut by Golden State - but may be signed by Indiana.
Is Listening to an Audiobook as Good as Reading? According to a recent study, the answer is yes. Science.
RED RUFFING [SABR Bio] pitched with four toes missing from his left foot as a result of a mining accident. Still, he was drafted into the Army Air Corps during WWII, despite being nearly 38 years old. Red was the first Yankee pitcher to hit a grand slam. In his first game of the season, 14-Apr-1933, with three runners on base, Ruffing homered off Boston’s Bob Weiland. He and only three other Yankee pitchers ever hit grand slams: Spud Chandler, Don Larsen, and Mel Stottlemyre. Ruffing’s first team was the Red Sox. His final team was the White Sox.
C. S. Lewis recognized: "The case against Christianity that is made out in the world is quite strong. Every war, every shipwreck, every cancer case, every calamity, contributes to making a case against Christianity. It is not easy to be a believer in the face of this surface evidence. It calls for a strong faith in Jesus Christ".
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