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[timill]

A Book Meme, from stevegreen, who got it from pigeonhed, who can’t remember where he got it from.

"List ten books you have which you think nobody else on your friends list might have."

I’ll try to limit myself to one book per subject and avoiding the Really Obscure (like the 40 volumes of Yeadon's Register of LNER Locomotives), in the interest of actually being wrong about some of these:

1. King of the Confessors, by Thomas Hoving
2. Jaguar Sports Racing & Works Competition Cars, by Andrew Whyte (2 vols)
3. Bloodwinter, by Tom Dietz
4. Bradshaw’s July 1938 Railway Guide (reprint)
5. I Saw The World End, by Deryck Cooke
6. Watt’s Perfect Engine, by Ben Marsden
7. Veeck as in Wreck, by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn
8. Coots in the North and other stories, by Arthur Ransome
9. The Inside Story of KZ-7, by Alan Sefton
10. The Trigan Empire, by Don Lawrence.

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[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

1. King of the Confessors, by Thomas Hoving

Got it. Read it.

Was motivated by John McPhee's profile of Hoving.

(This is not in the book, but I once heard a radio interview with Hoving, in which he described Vermeer as described Vermeer as "one of the great 17th-century painters of all time.")

7. Veeck as in Wreck, by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn

I'm no kind of sports fan, but Veeck (as told to Linn) is a great storyteller. I love this book. Have three editions. Have given away copies at times.

I recall the Reader's Digest excerpt Kip mentions-- the time Veeck sent a midget to bat for the St. Louis Browns, on the theory that he had a microscopic strike zone.

[timill]

Eddie Gaedel. But I don't remember what beer he was promoting.