Friday, September 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
2017 Verizon Indy Car Series Champion
September 17th 2017
Josef Newgarden wrapped up the 2017 Indy Car championship with a 2nd place finish at the season finale at the Sonoma Grand Prix in California. Simon Pagenaud the 2016 series champion took the victory at Sonoma but still fell 13 points shy of defending his title.
Josef Newgarden
2017 Verizon Indy Car Series Champion
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Flashback Tuesday
A look back at the 1977 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. I was 10 years old and I loved the Yankees and Reggie Jackson while my dad was an old school Dodgers fan. Needless to say it was fun at our house with the arguing and complaining.
Game 5
Sunday October 16th 1977
Dodger Stadium
Starting Pitchers : Yankees - Don Gullett, Dodgers - Don Sutton
This was broadcast by ABC with Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell and Tom Seaver on play by play. The is the first World Series broadcast by ABC TV since NBC had exclusive rights to the Series since 1946, the beginning of the World Series on TV.
Monday, September 25, 2017
NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (September 24th 2017)
New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending September 24th 2017
10 - The Store - James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
(4 weeks on list)
9 - Dark Legacy - Christine Feehan
(Debut)
Emeline Sanchez fights to recover from exchanging blood with a master vampire, even as she tries to heal the children she saved from him.
8 - Camino Island - John Grisham
(14 weeks on list)
7 - The Western Star - Craig Johnson
(Debut)
The 13th Walt Longmire novel. A parole hearing of a serial killer and the decades-old memory of a train ride with Wyoming sheriffs put Longmire on a collision course between past and present.
6 - The Right Time - Danielle Steel
(2 weeks on list)
The author Alexandra Winslow, writing under the pseudonym Alexander Green, creates a double life that isolates her.
5 - Glass Houses - Louise Penny
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)
When a body is discovered in Three Pines, Chief Superintendent Gamache regrets not acting on a hunch.
4 - Y Is For Yesterday - Sue Grafton
(3 weeks on list)
3 - Enemy of the State - Kyle Mills
(Debut)
Vince Flynn's character Mitch Rapp leaves the C.I.A. to go on a manhunt when the nephew of a Saudi King finances a terrorist group.
2 - Secrets In Death - J.D. Robb
(Debut)
Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a professional gossip who dabbled in blackmail; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
1 - A Legacy of Spies - John le Carre
(Debut)
Peter Guillam, formerly of the British Secret Service, is pulled out of retirement to defend intelligence operations during the Cold War that resulted in the deaths of people close to him.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Billboard Albums Chart | TOP 10 | September 16th 2017
Billboard 200 Album Chart
Top 10
Week Ending September 16th 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week
August 19th 2013
Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Old Time Radio Show of the Week
Old Time Radio Show of the Week
Lux Radio Theater
"The Dark Corner"
November 10th 1947
A former San Francisco private eye, just back in New York after two years in prison (the victim of a frame up), finds himself a target for another send-up and murder.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Gunsmoke 1957-58 (Season 3)
Here is episode #12 of the 3rd season titled "How To Kill a Woman" with guest star and future western icon Pernell Roberts. Roberts would soon become a star with another top rated western tv show, "Bonanza", which had 3 straight seasons at the biggest show on tv (1964-1967).
"How To Kill a Woman"
Season 2 episode 12
aired November 30th 1957
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) September 10th 2017
New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top Ten
Week Ending September 10th 2017
10 - Exposed - Lisa Scottoline
(2 weeks on list)
Bennie Rosato and Mary DiNunzio find themselves on opposite sides of a lawsuit, threatening their friendship and their law firm.
9 - Sulfur Springs - William Kent Krueger
(Debut)
A newly married couple search for the wife's missing son, which leads them to a border town in the middle of a drug war.
8 - A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
(40 weeks on list)
7 - The Lying Game - Ruth Ware
(5 weeks on list)
6 - Any Dream Will Do - Debbie Macomber
(3 weeks on list)
5 - The Late Show - Michael Connelly
(6 weeks on list)
4 - Camino Island - John Grisham
(12 weeks on list)
3 - Seeing Red - Sandra Brown
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)
The TV journalist Kerra Bailey and former federal agent John Trapper join forces to expose a web of conspiracy behind a hotel bombing in Dallas.
2 - The Store - James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
(2 weeks on list)
Two New York writers go undercover to expose the secrets of a powerful retailer.
1 - Y Is For Yesterday - Sue Grafton
(Debut)
The 25th Kinsey Milhone mystery novel. A former student from an elite private school is released from prison and a sociopath returns to haunt the detective.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Old Time Radio Show of the Week
Our Miss Brooks
"The Baseball Uniform Shortage"
March 26th 1950
The Madison High Athletic fund is so depleted that there's no money for the school baseball team.
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