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Not unlike McArthur,I have returned. After a searing two-week campaign in the Mojave it is good to be back to the (relative) comfort of northern San Diego County. I have a big post brewing for this holiday weekend –federal government employees still observe Columbus Day –but I’ve not Read on… This space has been little-used of late,a shortcoming I take quite personally. I’ve dispatched with one college application and find myself on the eve of a 15-day field operation out in Twentynine Palms,CA. I’ll be in the Mojave (pictured above during my last visit in August 2005) until October 3rd,but Read on… I first read one of my favorite books,Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential,when I was working pastry at a restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. In the book,Chef Tony used the term “pirates”to describe a particular band of cooks he once worked with in Providence,Rhode Island,and that particular comparison Read on… Prologue When I was spending the summer of 2004 in the heat-beaten desolation of extreme Western Iraq,I had plenty of opportunity to get to know the men in my platoon. One of them,a guy named Larry,was a 155mm howitzer section chief by trade,forced into a role as a squad leader after Read on… | ||||
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September 10,1995 –Who’s playing second? Knoblauch? Hale? Puckett?!
Two days before I became a teenager,the Minnesota Twins played the then-California Angels at the then-Anaheim Stadium in perhaps one of the strangest games,scoring-wise,of the last half century.
Baseball scorekeeping is Read on…