Baseball at the library?
It's baseball week at Hedberg Public Library! (It's also baseball week in the Vogel-Davis household. My dad is actually making me tape tonight's All-Star game because he has to work.)
In honor of the Brewers totally kicking butt on the All-Star roster (at least, that's what I'm assuming), the library is holding a series of baseball-related events. Monday, it showed the 1949 flick "It Happens Every Spring," one of the few baseball movies I haven't actually seen. It will show "Angels in the Outfield" at 7 p.m. Thursday and "The Sandlot" at 7 p.m. Friday.
But the highlight appears to be a visit from author Todd Mishler at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Mishler wrote the book "Baseball in Beertown: America's Pastime in Milwaukee." I haven't read the book, but I did buy it for my dad as a gift with every intention of stealing it back sometime to read it.
According to Hedberg's Web site, "Mishler takes a panoramic look at the triumphs and tragedies surrounding Major League Baseball since its inception in the 1870s, from Hall of Fame players such as Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, the World Series, Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, to free agency and modern economics and why the sport became America's pastime."
Sounds exciting to me. Click here for more info. But please don't enter the contest to win a trip to the hall of fame. I'm trying to win that myself.
NOTE: WEDNESDAY'S PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED, ACCORDING TO A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE LIBRARY. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE.
Jul 18, 2008 at 2 a.m.
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Hope you had a a LOT of digital (or analog) space to tape that thing on for your old man! I actually was CALLING a tie in the 7th inning when it was 3-2 NL! A called a buddy of mine and predicted it, and he thought that I was crazy, and gave me 50/1 odds that it would be NO tie! He was sweating bullets when it got to 15th inning, and the AL was down to their last pitcher (who pitched over 100 pitches on Sunday).
It would have only been fitting for Bud Selig to have ANOTHER tie debacle in an all star game, and have it in the last days of the famed Yankee stadium! I WAS SURE HOPING! Did you see his face when they showed shots of him? With Yogi Beara there, it was literally looking like "deja vu ALL OVER AGAIN!!"
Jul 16, 2008 at 10:13 a.m.
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Ha, I didn't know that! Now I'm even more disappointed the program was cancelled.
Jul 16, 2008 at 9:07 a.m.
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Local note: Todd Mishler honed his writing/editing skills at The Janesville Gazette, back in the prehistoric days before Stacy joined the newsroom staff. He's written previous Wisconsin sports books, including one, of course, on the Packers. Go Todd!
Jul 15, 2008 at 10:56 p.m.
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I know a couple of Brewers fans that would enjoy this. Thanks for the heads up Stacy.
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