Players
Great news for everyone but loonies on the President.
RIP standout reliever Ron Perranoski, 84, four-time world champion with the Dodgers, two as coach. In 1963 the lefty won 16 games in relief and earned a save in Game Three of the Series, which L. A. swept from the mighty Yankees. In 1967 he was traded to the Twins and then led the AL in saves in ’69 and ’70. He also played for the Tigers and Angels. He finished 79–74, ERA 2.79, 178 saves in 13 seasons. He served as the Dodgers pitching coach from ‘81-’94. He then moved to the arch rival Giants, where he became pitching coach in ‘98-’99, and then worked in the front office as an assistant to the GM. He is a member of the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. Here are a couple of neat trivia facts about him: he attended Michigan St., where he was a teammate of Dick “The Monster” Radatz, also a successful MLB reliever, and he appeared in an episode of Branded, which starred former Dodger Chuck Connors. Well done, sir.
Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran yet another film I’d never seen as part of its Sunday Night Noir series: Scene of the Crime (1949), starring Van Johnson as a tough cop. It’s standard stuff elevated by Gloria DeHaven’s turn as a nightclub singer of dubious morals and Robert Gist’s as an informer (“Yuk Yuk”). DeHaven’s career spanned 1936–2000. Her most notable credits are in TV, where she appeared in 31 episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and 79 of Ryan’s Hope. She passed away at 91 in 2012. Gist has 66 credits under his name as Actor and 38 as Director, the latter almost exclusively in TV. He was at the helm of 20 episodes of Peter Gunn and seven of Naked City. He passed away at 80 in 1998. Here’s DeHaven in character:
And here’s Gist between Johnson and Arlene Dahl, who played the cop’s wife. She married six times:
Business as usual in the Windy City, from a headline at foxnews.com: “Chicago records deadliest September in over 25 years.”
Yesterday’s bonanza of Russian books began paying dividends. My thanks to the kind folks who combined to buy more than 20 of them, and to the gentleman who purchased Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and 365: Daily Meditations, which features an inspiring quote for every day of the year; and to the home attendant of the brainiac brothers, who delivered three books.
Here’s a Danielle Steel Russian translation:
And here’s one by Nora Roberts:
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