Cy Young

Cy Young: A Baseball Life
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This book is for baseball fans. It answers the question of Who was Cy Young? Every year Major League Baseball gives an award in both leagues and I doubt that the vast majority of baseball fans can write two sentences about Cy Young. I found his accomplishments stunning in an era when pitchers started every third day, the good ones threw more than 400 innings a year and finished their own games.

Baseball was clearly not the game then that it is today. This tells how it has changed. For example, in Young's day, fans were called "cranks." I think this is an apt description of even today's fans! It was common to call the police to settle on-field arguments! Wow! Read this before the season starts if you are a fan. If you aren't a baseball fan...why not?

Jim

The Three Stooges - How High Is Up? [VHS]
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Half Wits Holiday (1947)
Curly's last official stooge short, two professors wanna get a guy whose in the lowest form and when the stooges show up after Moe brains Larry and Curly the professors found their men, they have about 2 months to rearrange themselves from men to gentlemen, if successful they get $1000. Sadly this was the short when Curly suffered a major stroke which disabled him from doing anymore stooge work although he had a cameo in Half Wits Holiday and Jules White made the other stooges finish the short without by themselves and they get into a pie fight, good short but it's actually a remake of the classic Hoi Polloi (1935) and the pie fight was actually reused in Pest Man Wins (1951) Scheming Schemers (1956) and Pies and Guys (1958).
3.5/5Horses Collars (1935)
One of the weaker stooge shorts but Curly's line 'Moe, Larry the Cheese' when he goes crazy as he spots a mouse is a resciment of Punch Drunks and although there were some funny parts, the short overall is far from it being a classic 2.5/5How High is Up
The boys are fix-it men who are sleeping underneath the truck and when the fire hydrant goes off, it hits the boys bed and they flow on the street and a boys actually get hit by a truck and Moe wakes up Curly while the cop is standing right next to him, then Moe tells Curly to go fix the puncture and he mistakes it from a salami that fell out of Moe's sandwich and the dog eats it when the tire goes flat and meanwhile there's a hilarious scene when Curly gets stuck in a sweater and Moe and Larry try a variety of things to get him out, Larry: 'Looks like a V-8)' Moe: 'Have you ever heard of a V-5' Larry: 'What's that, a new car' Moe: 'No it's an old sock' as he slaps him and they finally got Curly out of his sweater, later the boys become construction workers working on the 97TH FLOOR! Curly gets dizzy and from there, the short gets even more hilarious, there's a hilarious scene when Curly falls off the building only to land on a barbeque pit or when the boys were eating 'hot dogs' on the job or when the hot rivet falls on the bosses shirt and the boys decide to quit the job, this short is a classic, so much a classic that this tape is worth it for How High is Up alone. 5/5

Love of fame, the universal passion. In 7 satires [by E. Young].
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