That was the week that was

August 11, 2012

Some vacation.

Actually it was no vacation at all. This is the first time since Aug. 1 I’ve been upright, pain-free, and clear-headed enough to post.

Following my 11-seconds of fame as one of the first-pitch-throwers at a Trenton Thunder game, I’ve been suffering with a respiratory infection that had me feverish, coughing, and otherwise unable to concentrate on anything more involved that watching TV.

Here’s the clip, taken by my daughter Rachel. Don’t blink; you’ll miss it.

So that explains my absence. I did manager to get a bit of reading done over the last couple of days, including Branch Rickey’s under-praised The American Diamond: A Documentary of the Game of Baseball, published in 1965, and a 1964 bio on Sandy Koufax by Arnold Hano. Finally, there was Larry LaRue‘s engaging collection of anecdotes, Major League Encounters. Look for review of these titles, as well as a podcast interview with LaRue in the near future.

(Incidentally, the title for this post was taken from an old TV show.)

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