John Powers and Tim Wendel wrote books about the 1980 hockey team at the time. Tim's book was just republished. Wayne Coffey did a book, "The...
Of the new titles, Bill Russell's book was enjoyable, at least to this old Celtics fan. I read LeBron's book in order to review it ($$) but...
Not sure if this was mentioned, but I think I saw in there somewhere that the actual magazine is going bi-weekly in August. So it won't have...
I think Bill James has written that pitching (probably starting, but I don't remember for sure) and power grow in relative importance in the...
Actually, the U.S. played the Soviet Union in the semifinal game. America won 3-2, setting up the gold medal game with Czechoslovakia. The U.S....
I've tried to sell some guides and yearbooks over the years, but you really don't get much for them unless they are more than 30 years old. One...
I'm a Cherrios guy now. But gotta tell two little anecdotes: 1. Anyone remember Quisp? It came out with Quake in the late 1960's. They both...
I'm a member of Mensa. On the national Web site is a list of qualifications, such as SAT scores. That's how I got in -- I had taken the test for a...
If I can jump to television, sort of -- HBO did a documentary in 2005 on the '04 Red Sox, "Reverse of the Curse of the Bambino." There's a scene...
During the 2004 Presidential campaign, a handful of people told me I looked like John Kerry -- but only when I needed a haircut. The day after a...
Funny -- I once sold sets of baseball cards that were sitting in the closet, and turned the proceeds into a new set of golf irons. Selling books...
When I was seven years old (1963), I wrote Johnny Pesky a letter congratulating him on being named the Red Sox manager and wishing him good luck....
I collected them like crazy when I was a kid, back in the 1960's. We're talking thousands of cards. It's surprising I have any teeth left now,...
For what it's worth, Sporting News subscriptions are advertised on magazinepricesearch.com (which jumps to bestdealmagazines.com) at 60 issues for...
Had a Shamrock shake in Scranton, Pennsylvania one time on a road trip. And got really sick to my stomach. Never again (the shake, not the road...
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