The First All-Star Game

The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroads by Randall Sullivan

The first all star baseball game took place in July of 1933 in Chicago. At the time it was called the game of the century, but was so popular that it was repeated each year as the all star game. It also inspired the Negro leagues to have their own all star came in Chicago in september of 1933. The origial idea came from a sports writer for the Chicago Tribune. This was the depth of the depression, and when the depression began it was first thought that professional baseball was depression proof, but by 1933 atendance began to drop as more people were out of work and could not afford to go to games. The teams were chosen by ballots that were printed in newspapers and that people mailed in.

Dark Summit

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil

This is the chronicle of the 2006 season on Everest. Another year with a lot of fatalities. Also included is some history of Himalayan climbing, back to Mallory. This will be familiar ground to those who have read about other tragedies about climbing, which sometimes seems like the only kind.

The author does provide a nice summary list of the books published about the 1996 season “Before long a small library of firsthand accounts emerged, most notably Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, Anatoli Boukreev’s The Climb, Beck Weathers’s Left for Dead, Kenneth Kamler’s Doctor on Everest, and Matt Dickinson’s The Other Side of Everest.”