Book lovers in the reading audience will be interested to hear that Kostya Kennedy and Time Inc./Sports Illustrated won Spitball Magazine’s 2011 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book for “56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports.”Kennedy’s book was among 10 finalists for this 29th Annual Award. The other finalists included the following titles:
- “The Art of Fielding: A Novel” by Chad Harbach
- “Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game” by John Thorn
- “The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs” by Neal McCabe and Constance McCabe
- “Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball’s Longest Game” by Dan Barry
- “Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella” by Neil Lanctot
- “Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season and Fenway’s Remarkable First Year” by Glenn Stout
- “The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957” by Dennis Snelling
- “The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932” by Thomas Aiello
- “21: The Story of Roberto Clemente” by Wilfred Santiago
If you enjoy baseball and a good book, you probably can’t go wrong with any of these books.
Super Bowl XLVI (46) will be played this coming Sunday, and almost every living, breathing football fan in the country will be glued to their TV to see the New England Patriots take on the New York Giants in Indianapolis.
This year’s big game will be broadcast live on NBC and is set to begin at 5:30 p.m.
Over the years, the Super Bowl has been elevated to the level of an unofficial national holiday, and more than a few people tune in just to see the commercials. The halftime show is also usually worth watching, and this year’s show will feature Madonna.
The Patriots are a slight favorite in the game, and most fans will agree that the Giants are going to have to bring their A game if they hope to beat Tom Brady and the Pats. It goes without saying that the Giants are pretty good themselves, so they will have their say in regard to the final outcome.
For me, the Super Bowl is always bitter sweet. The game is arguably the biggest sporting event of the year, but when the final second ticks off the game clock on Sunday, it’ll mark the official end of another long football season.
With the end of football, most sports fans will turn their full attention to basketball, and hoops fans in the reading audience will know that the high school season is winding down too. Sparta Academy wrapped up its regular season last week, and Hillcrest will close out their regular season schedule tomorrow (Friday) night.
Conecuh County is lucky to have a group of outstanding high school basketball coaches and a slate of very decent varsity teams. This year it looks like Hillcrest’s varsity boys and Sparta’s varsity girls have the best chances of going deep into the playoffs. Of course, the jury is still out on Hillcrest’s varsity girls and Sparta’s varsity boys. If those two teams take it a game at a time and play to their full potential, they could also make strong runs in their respective classes.
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