What cards on your desk..what's on your iPOD and whatcha reading?

Tyler · #1 03-22-2010, 08:18 AM

Cards:
Was T206 Tinker, Evers and Chance until I sold them on the B/S/T a couple of weeks ago.

iPod:
Ween and Robert Earl Keen (going to see REK in Tampa this Thursday.)

Reading:
Getting ready to start "Among the Thugs" by Bill Buford. An american's tale of running with some English soccer hooligans in the 80's.

E93 · #2 03-22-2010, 09:37 AM

DRC,
Very interesting music and reading choices.
JimB

Ladder7 · #3 03-22-2010, 10:38 AM

An E254 Honus beater that I need to ship out to a buyer

Podcast; NPR Car Talk with the Magliozzi Brothers

Paradise Alley, I've been chipping away at for months.

deadballera · #4 03-22-2010, 10:08 AM

on my desk: None

IPOD- innings 1-6 of the Ken Burns Baseball, The Natural, Eight Men Out

Reading - Golden Age of Baseball - Conlon

CobbvLajoie1910 · #5 03-22-2010, 10:33 AM

Desk: 1958T Cal McLish (w/verrrrrry sharp corners), 1939 PB Lloyd Waner, & a few random pinbacks.

iPod: (of late) new Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Volta Sound, Spacemen 3's Out Of It Sessions, & a little Stereolab (nice Steve Y)

Bedside Table: Atlas Shrugged + 3 fantasy baseball mags (draft is on Sun!)

yawie99 · #6 03-22-2010, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CobbvLajoie1910

iPod: (of late) new Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Volta Sound, Spacemen 3's Out Of It Sessions, & a little Stereolab (nice Steve Y)

Likewise on BJM. I trust you've seen "Dig!" If not, go do so immediately.

paulcarek · #7 03-22-2010, 11:13 AM

Desk:

1934 Goudey Foxx, which I can't stop looking at. (Thanks again, Quan.)

iPod:

Grateful Dead at Englishtown, NJ, 9/3/77. Got me through a 15-mile run yesterday.

Books:

"The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Just finished George Vecsey's highly enjoyable "Baseball."

CobbvLajoie1910 · #8 03-22-2010, 11:17 AM

Steve.

I have seen "Dig"...more than once.

I have tipped a few back with Dr. Newcombe...on a couple of occasions.
He really is a sweetheart of a guy.

Which 'Lab record is your go-to?

Bosox Blair · #9 03-22-2010, 11:28 AM

Desk: Some pre-War randoms to be sent to SGC (one March special is 10 pre-1948 cards under $250 value apiece for $70...regular fee for this is $100)

Ipod: Band of Heathens, Parlor Mob, Alberta Cross

Books: Two bios - Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train and Just a Big Kid (Rube Waddell)

Cheers,
Blair

yawie99 · #10 03-23-2010, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CobbvLajoie1910

I have tipped a few back with Dr. Newcombe...on a couple of occasions.
He really is a sweetheart of a guy.

Which 'Lab record is your go-to?

Is that right? On one hand, I wouldn't have guessed that based on his antics the one time I saw them here in St. Louis, but on the other, I suspect there's a normal human under the rock star facade.

Hmmm, my favorite Stereolab album varies a bit, but Emperor Tomato Ketchup probably wears the crown most often. Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements is another fave, thanks in large part to the epic "Jenny Ondioline."

E93 · #11 03-22-2010, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulcarek

Desk:

iPod:

Grateful Dead at Englishtown, NJ, 9/3/77. Got me through a 15-mile run yesterday.

"

A classic, indeed! It is hard to go too wrong with '77 Dead!
JimB

FUBAR · #12 03-22-2010, 03:16 PM

Rob

didnt Mother Love Bone have something to do with Pearl Jam?? If i remember my music from the early 90's.....