View Full Version : Why We REED Baseball Books:
clydepepper
02-01-2019, 11:48 AM
My Baseball library contains over 250 supposedly well-researched and well-written works of labor and love for the Game we hold so dear - a Game known for its statistics and its rich history.
We trust supposedly more talented and more attentive writers to gift us, through their skills, an accurate record of both their memories and or own.
However, my faith in book editors is constantly being challenged. Please wish me luck in that endeavor as I try to dive into my latest addition-
'All My Octabers'
Vintagecatcher
02-01-2019, 05:58 PM
Quick....Lock the thread quick before Barry sees the thread and faints!
Patrick
Throttlesteer
02-01-2019, 06:02 PM
Maybe its chronicalling all of times the Mick had 8 beers.
From what I have heard the book pictured isn't big enough.
Maybe its chronicalling all of times the Mick had 8 beers.
Peter_Spaeth
02-04-2019, 06:12 PM
As long as we're correcting, it's is short for it is, not a possessive.
commishbob
02-04-2019, 06:21 PM
Haha...good stuff.
I was privileged to work with Mickey Herskowitz at the dearly departed Houston Post off and on for almost two decades. He was then and remains my favorite columnist. He's a terrific writer and a gifted storyteller. He's written quite a few books, I see 35 listed but I'd bet it's more. He ghostwrote Howard Cosell's autobiography, co-authored bios with Bette Davis and George W Bush.
He's in his mid-80s now but as recently as 2015 was going strong as a speaker when I saw him at a local SABR chapter meeting.
Thanks for prompting some wonderful memories.
quinnsryche
02-04-2019, 06:30 PM
Just read that one. I thought it was very interesting from the Mick's point of view.
clydepepper
02-04-2019, 07:38 PM
As long as we're correcting, it's is short for it is, not a possessive.
I thought it was both. How would you state the possessive version?
I am never too proud to learn.
ValKehl
02-04-2019, 08:17 PM
The possessive version is "its" (no apostrophe).
Another very common misuse of words is "insure" for "ensure."
Peter_Spaeth
02-04-2019, 08:33 PM
The possessive version is "its" (no apostrophe).
Another very common misuse of words is "insure" for "ensure."
Definately,:eek:
ValKehl
02-04-2019, 09:14 PM
Definately,:eek:
Yes, definitely!
Peter_Spaeth
02-04-2019, 09:37 PM
I see "their," "there" and "they're" confused constantly.
Stampsfan
02-05-2019, 02:08 AM
They are defiantly definitive.
brianp-beme
02-05-2019, 02:19 PM
They are defiantly definitive.
I big to different.
Brian
jchcollins
02-05-2019, 03:08 PM
For some reason this thread reminds me of Mantle doing his imitation of how Bobby Layne (the old Detroit quarterback) got out of trouble when he used to get pulled over with his accent -
"All, awficcer - Ah'm not drunk, ah'm from Texas!"
Something about that story makes me think the Oklahoma version of that accent wasn't much different...
clydepepper
02-05-2019, 04:51 PM
I see "their," "there" and "they're" confused constantly.
THE GRAMMAR LESSON continues:
Were people hanged, or were they hung?
If someone dived instead of dove, would they have diven?
You do not say someone drived, you say they drove.
etc., etc., …
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ALR-bishop
02-05-2019, 04:55 PM
What me worry
Tom S.
02-05-2019, 06:18 PM
THE GRAMMAR LESSON continues:
Were people hanged, or were they hung?
If someone dived instead of dove, would they have diven?
You do not say someone drived, you say they drove.
etc., etc., …
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Peter_Spaeth
02-05-2019, 07:23 PM
THE GRAMMAR LESSON continues:
Were people hanged, or were they hung?
If someone dived instead of dove, would they have diven?
You do not say someone drived, you say they drove.
etc., etc., …
=
People are always hanged. Of course some may be hung, but that's another subject. :D
frankbmd
02-06-2019, 08:01 AM
THE GRAMMAR LESSON continues:
Were people hanged, or were they hung?
If someone dived instead of dove, would they have diven?
You do not say someone drived, you say they drove.
etc., etc., …
=
People are always hanged. Of course some may be hung, but that's another subject. :D
When I was working at the gallows, the foreman always said that if the “client” died, he was well hung. :eek:
Peter_Spaeth
02-06-2019, 09:03 AM
When I was working at the gallows, the foreman always said that if the “client” died, he was well hung. :eek:
The proper usage there would be well hanged. Well hung would be incidental.
Peter_Spaeth
02-06-2019, 09:34 AM
This reminds me of the Robin Williams routine where he does an ad for a school that can turn white people into black people. Of course it would have been incredibly offensive if it wasn't so tongue in cheek, making fun of stereotypes. Even then it might have been offensive. At one point, he says, become instantly well hung and then he repeats an octave lower, that's right, instantly well hung. It was classic.
frankbmd
02-06-2019, 09:40 AM
When I was working at the gallows, the foreman always said that if the “client” died, he was well hung. :eek:
The proper usage there would be well hanged. Well hung would be incidental.
I always thought that foreman was nuts.:D
Paul S
02-06-2019, 10:39 AM
People are always hanged. Of course some may be hung, but that's another subject. :D
Some people are unhinged:)