A Don McCormack column: Former Herald star on the move
DON McCORMACK Star Beacon
Book it
Recent summer reading for yours truly has included the following:
n “Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks,” by Richard Fernicola.
A terrific factual story, filled with intriguing details from that era, about the events that inspired JAWS.
n “Downtown Owl, A Novel,” by Chuck Klosterman.
A neat story about a small-town high school football team in non-descript Owl, North Dakota, focusing on its players, head coach, teachers in the school and the community itself.
The book on my nightstand right now is “Satchel: The Life and Times of a True American Legend.”
A terrific, indepth effort by Larry Tye on hall of famer Satchel Paige, including an insightful chunk on Bill Veeck bringing him to the Indians in the 1948 season. Paige went 6-1 with a 2.48 earned run average that season and helped the Indians win the World Series, something they haven’t managed to do since.
Next on my list, “The Year Babe Ruth hit 104 home runs: Recapping Baseball’s Greatest Slugger,” by Bill Jenkins.
Double whammy
With Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson dying on the same day Thursday, I was taken back to my days as a youngster.
Roger Wesely had THE poster of Farrah on his wall first... and I had it, too, the next day.
As far as Jackson goes, the news of his death, coupled with the ridiculous, over-the-top television coverage of Manny Ramirez’s ho-hum, going-through-the-motion at-bats with the Class AAA Albuquerque Isotopes, brings to mind a joke from a few years ago:
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