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		<title>Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3 games to 2 against Darrell Johnson’s scrappy Red Sox. After a three-day rain delay that has drowned any hope of an inning, the sun rises on the oldest Major League stadium still in use. It’s Tuesday, October 21, at Fenway Park.]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams&#8217; Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a scene in <em>Field of Dreams</em> where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player wearing a New York Giants uniform. He has just seen a girl fall from the bleachers and he comes running towards her, hesitating for a fraction of a second on the edge of the grass. Then he drops his glove, takes a step and metamorphoses into the incomparable Burt Lancaster in one of his last starring roles. In an instant, Moonlight Graham has become Doc Graham, and he can never go back to the game he loved.]]></description>
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		<title>David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the bird when out driving with his family. Bill got in his last known public fist fight at the age of 65. 'Genius' or not, he was not someone to be trifled with."]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/713</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in the 80s deployed a particularly tough approach that would be considered by outsiders to the sport, emotional abuse. As a participant, the seemingly ‘aggressive’ tactics just seemed like the norm. And I just got used to it. It didn’t seem especially awful at the time as it is what most of my friends were also going through.]]></description>
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		<title>High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate of Base Camp at Mount Everest. The 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalayas have become the unfortunate repositories for what is repugnant about human nature with very little innate goodness surviving. Dying climbers pushed aside, ignored and denied medical help while their equipment is stolen, greedy guides unethical to the point of criminal, drugs, alcoholism, prostitution – hell this could just as well be inner city New York or Saigon as 20,000 feet above sea level in what used to be one of the most remote landscapes on earth. Everest has become the poster child for this debauchery.]]></description>
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		<title>Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/484</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and live to fly fish, to cast haphazardly-tied amalgams of fur and feather to wild trout while standing knee deep in the middle of a gorgeous trout stream surrounded by jagged mountains and vast native grass prairies that drift off in all directions.]]></description>
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		<title>A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/290</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of this place. One can sit and admire the mountains from a bench on Elk Avenue, or from a car out on the summer roads, but to me there is nothing better in life than walking an hour or two up to Scarp Ridge or the long green alp atop Mount Axtell, to sit and see high peaks all around.]]></description>
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		<title>The Fighter by Craig Davidson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/233</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and William T. Vollmann have some new company hanging out on their dark, rough, violent block. He’s Craig Davidson and here’s how he tells what he feels and sees...]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With &#8220;Pistol Pete&#8221; Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/223</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice. Pete could stay on the court longer than other kids. Much longer."]]></description>
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		<title>Tommy&#8217;s Honor by Kevin Cook</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/212</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level overgrazed patches of grass that were often covered with the residue of the feeding rabbits.]]></description>
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		<title>September Swoon: Richie Allen, the &#8216;64 Phillies, and Racial Integration by William C. Kashatus</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/165</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Blairon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Philadelphians over a certain age, the year 1964 evokes bitter memories of a Phillies team securely ensconced in first place by 6 ½ games with only 12 games left to play in the season.]]></description>
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		<title>Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/130</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Kreit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But rather than trace the rise of the institution of eating, Fagone focuses on the eaters themselves, and it is in extracting the details of eaters lives where he excels.]]></description>
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		<title>Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection by George Black</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/108</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, back in the days of its relative anonymity, fly fishing was considered an arcane art practiced by mildly addled, eccentric cranks.]]></description>
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		<title>The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan by John Coyne</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/106</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of being cold-hearted, though after reading this book I don’t seem to care all that much, there are times I wonder why people who are at least reasonably accomplished authors make the effort to write certain books, not to mention why these less-than-stellar titles ever see the light of print.]]></description>
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