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Baseball and the Giants

I posted this back in 2010 just before the SF Giants won the World Series. Seemed appropriate to post it again considering that they won again! Woohoo!!! So here it is:
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It was a beautiful summer Sunday. My father had promised that we would go to Candlestick and watch the Giants play, my first memory of seeing a live professional game. It was probably 1965, and I was perhaps 6-years old, so my memory of details could easily be mistaken. But I think they were playing the Dodgers that day. Or at least I want to believe that.

To …

Book Reviews,

Favorite Books of 2010

I have read about 90 books in 2010 (here’s the complete list). That might be my personal record. Taking October off contributed to the total because I had so much time to read!

Deciding on my favorite is difficult because it is hard to compare a novel with, say, a biography. So here are a few categories — completely made up from my imagination — that helped me sort them.

The “This book should be considered by the Pulitzer Prize people” Category: The Hawk & the Dove, by Nicholas Thompson. A brilliant book that explores the …

Apocryphal, Random Thoughts,

Baseball

It was a beautiful summer Sunday. My father had promised that we would go to Candlestick and watch the Giants play, my first memory of seeing a live professional game. It was probably 1965, and I was perhaps 6-years old, so my memory of details could easily be mistaken. But I think they were playing the Dodgers that day. Or at least I want to believe that.

To my dismay, we had to go to church first. Church got out at noon, and we left soon after, and I remember being nervous about missing the first inning because the game …