Why We REED Baseball Books:

[clydepepper]

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]

Quick....Lock the thread quick before Barry sees the thread and faints!

Patrick

[Throttlesteer]

Maybe its chronicalling all of times the Mick had 8 beers.

[Leon]

From what I have heard the book pictured isn't big enough.

Originally Posted by Throttlesteer

Maybe its chronicalling all of times the Mick had 8 beers.

[Peter_Spaeth]

As long as we're correcting, it's is short for it is, not a possessive.

[commishbob]

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]

Just read that one. I thought it was very interesting from the Mick's point of view.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

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]

The possessive version is "its" (no apostrophe).

Another very common misuse of words is "insure" for "ensure."

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

The possessive version is "its" (no apostrophe).

Another very common misuse of words is "insure" for "ensure."

Definately,

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Definately,

Yes, definitely!

[Peter_Spaeth]

I see "their," "there" and "they're" confused constantly.

[Stampsfan]

They are defiantly definitive.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Stampsfan

They are defiantly definitive.

I big to different.

Brian

[jchcollins]

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]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

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]

What me worry

[Tom S.]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

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]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

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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People are always hanged. Of course some may be hung, but that's another subject.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

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., …



=

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

People are always hanged. Of course some may be hung, but that's another subject.

When I was working at the gallows, the foreman always said that if the “client” died, he was well hung.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

When I was working at the gallows, the foreman always said that if the “client” died, he was well hung.

The proper usage there would be well hanged. Well hung would be incidental.

[Peter_Spaeth]

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]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

When I was working at the gallows, the foreman always said that if the “client” died, he was well hung.

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

The proper usage there would be well hanged. Well hung would be incidental.

I always thought that foreman was nuts.

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

People are always hanged. Of course some may be hung, but that's another subject.

Some people are unhinged