Literary birthday greetings: Catfish, The Kid, and Kirby

April 8, 2011

Gary Carter turns 57 today. Among the books written by or about The Kid:

Catfish Hunter was born in 1946.

Also born this date, pitcher Kirby Higbe, in 1915. He published his auto/memoir, The High Hard One (with Martin Quigley) in 1967. You can read (most of) it here.

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