April 2024 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 -
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
-
Join 471 other subscribers
Meta
Latest tweets
Tweets by https%3Atwitter.comMRoeger
Category Archives: Books
Baseball! Already?
Sometime over the weekend in Sydney, Australia, the major league baseball season will begin when the LA Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks square off at the cricket grounds. Baseball in Australia? What’s the world coming to? Actually, I don’t find it … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1919 Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Australia, baseball, Baseball in Australia, Detroit Tigers, Dirk Hayhurst, Eight Men Out, International League, John Feinstein, Los Angeles Dodgers, Midwest League, Norfolk Tides, Parkview Field, Sydney, Syndey, TinCaps
Leave a comment
Now for something completely different
No, I am not writing about Monty Python, though I think the local Civic Theatre is going to stage Spamalot this year. Instead, I am writing about baseball. Yes, when the wind-chill hits single digits or colder, you should think … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Winter
Tagged baseball, Chris Ballard, Civic Theatre, Hoosiers, Illinois, Indiana, LC Sweet, Macon, Macon Ironmen, Monty Python, One Shot at Forever, Spamalot
2 Comments
Writing exercises
My son loves brackets. He’ll create a bracket for things alike and unalike. On Monday, he came up with a bracket on things very unalike: breakfast cereal, stinky skunk, Chevy Bel Air, Girl Scout cookies. What we do is he’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged card baseball, cereal, Chevy BelAir, Chris Van Allsburg, Dog, Ethiopia, Girl Scout cookies, home school, stinky skunk, Tanzania
10 Comments
Holiday book ideas
Nov. 23 was “Black Friday” the busiest shopping day of the year. People were in line outside Walmart, Target, Kmart, Sears and a host of other stores before late Thanksgiving night hoping to get that (name of the latest toy … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged car free, Cathleen Hockman-Wert, Chris Balish, Christopher McDougall, cooking, Mary Beth Lind, running, Scott Jurek, ultramarathoning, ultratriathloning, vegan
1 Comment