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From: TeachingBooks.net <Nick>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:37:40 -0500
Oh my: I quickly wrote this and can't believe my egregious error. I was just typing and I obviously not thinking.
It was Don Larsen who through the perfect game and is a vital character in Phil Hoose's memoir…. Thanks to Kathy Jarombek for waking me up. I'm so embarrassed…. But the book recommendation remains.
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Love this thread. Thanks, CCBC, for giving me a reading list that I want for the summer!
For those that like baseball, the book that had me in stitches (both in reading to myself and later reading aloud with my partner) is a little-known book by Newbery and National Book Award recipient Phil Hoose called Perfect Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me. It was published for adults, but a non-issue cross-over book.
It is the memoir of his experiences growing up while his cousin is Don Drysdale (who pitched a perfect game for the Yankees in the 56 World Series). This and Sherman Alexie's True Diary of a Part-time Indian are perhaps two of the most poignant, yet laugh-till-I-cry books i've read in a years.
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Nick Glass Founder & Executive Director
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Received on Fri 07 Jun 2013 10:37:40 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:37:40 -0500
Oh my: I quickly wrote this and can't believe my egregious error. I was just typing and I obviously not thinking.
It was Don Larsen who through the perfect game and is a vital character in Phil Hoose's memoir…. Thanks to Kathy Jarombek for waking me up. I'm so embarrassed…. But the book recommendation remains.
****
Love this thread. Thanks, CCBC, for giving me a reading list that I want for the summer!
For those that like baseball, the book that had me in stitches (both in reading to myself and later reading aloud with my partner) is a little-known book by Newbery and National Book Award recipient Phil Hoose called Perfect Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me. It was published for adults, but a non-issue cross-over book.
It is the memoir of his experiences growing up while his cousin is Don Drysdale (who pitched a perfect game for the Yankees in the 56 World Series). This and Sherman Alexie's True Diary of a Part-time Indian are perhaps two of the most poignant, yet laugh-till-I-cry books i've read in a years.
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Nick Glass Founder & Executive Director
TeachingBooks.net LLC
p 800 596.0710 e nick_at_TeachingBooks.net
TeachingBooks Take a Tour Video: http://TeachingBooks.net/Tour
Received on Fri 07 Jun 2013 10:37:40 AM CDT
