By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Birthday wish of the day
Belated happy birthday to baseball great Sadaharu Oh, who turned 71 on Friday. Oh played his entire 22-year professional career with Japan's Yomiuri Giants and was their manager from 1984 to 1988. Oh holds the world career home run record (868) as well as Japan's single-season home run record of 55, set in 1964. And, yep, he did it without performing-enhancing drugs.
He wrote it
There are Losses, Bad Losses, Very Bad Losses, and Catastrophic Losses. This being Florida, and therefore hurricane country, we might label them as Categories 1, 2, 3, and 4. I rate this one a 3: Very Bad Loss.
Bob Ryan, Boston Globe columnist, after the Lightning's 5-3 victory Saturday in which the Bruins led 3-0 in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final
Check it out
The controversial book about ESPN will hit bookstores Tuesday. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN is more than 700 pages and details the corporate history of the sports network. But it is generating headlines because of the juicy tales and unflattering off-camera looks at some of ESPN's personalities. Co-authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales interviewed more than 550 people for the book.