tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post52181864083071361..comments2024-03-07T17:13:54.927-05:00Comments on A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition: Review of the Day: Heroes of Baseballfusenumber8http://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-89306571006538335172006-10-15T22:38:00.000-04:002006-10-15T22:38:00.000-04:00As for coffee table books in the children's depart...As for coffee table books in the children's department of the library -- I go crazy. Where to shelve them? some of them don' t fit on the shelf any way you try to shelve them -- and my library doesn't have any empty shelving where large books can lay flat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-54802780382251487302006-10-14T17:37:00.000-04:002006-10-14T17:37:00.000-04:00I have old baseball cards that STILL have the fain...I have old baseball cards that STILL have the faint smell of gum on them. Ahhhh. Happiness. Plus I figure that in the event of an earthquake disaster, I can eat the cards as they'd have the same nutritional value as the gum itself....Greg Pincushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00449684160718426340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-58418797048944669172006-10-13T13:47:00.000-04:002006-10-13T13:47:00.000-04:00I remember the gum well. I collected Topps baseba...I remember the gum well. I collected Topps baseball cards as a kid (which is funny when you consider that I couldn't care less about the players) and the gum was always the same. Paper thin with an edge sharp enough to cut your tongue if you put it in your mouth the wrong way. My childhood love of all things gummish (Bubble Yum and Bazooka Joe were regular stables of my diet) kept me going back to that awful awful gum. I think fondly of it to this day.fusenumber8https://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-3424556228751997862006-10-13T13:30:00.000-04:002006-10-13T13:30:00.000-04:00Gum doesn't come with cards because it ruins their...Gum doesn't come with cards because it ruins their collectibility. Also, let's be honest, it was horrifically bad gum. On the plus side, I recall finding a nearly decade old pack of cards with gum, opening it, and discovering that the gum tasted exactly the same lo those many years later. That's gotta be good for something, though maybe just for an anecdote.Greg Pincushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00449684160718426340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-34908405782786132492006-10-13T06:01:00.000-04:002006-10-13T06:01:00.000-04:00Count me in as a big fan of this book. Kids are fi...Count me in as a big fan of this book. Kids are fixated on sports figures as heroes and so I love the way Lipsyte encourages his young readers to think about what a sports hero is exactly. He gives us a sense of what he thinks one is and asks his readers to think what theirs is too. Including and considering problematic figures like Ty Cobb is, to my mind, a master stroke. This wonderful book should get those young readers to begin really thinking hard and beyond the stats about these guys in all their complexities.Monica Edingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924540264341924291noreply@blogger.com