Marichal, Spahn took pitcher's role to new heights On a July night 50 years ago, to the nearly 16,000 fans who braved the piercing winds under a full moon at Candlestick Park to watch the San Francisco Giants play the Milwaukee Braves, it seemed like just another mid-week, mid-season game. But as the zeros piled up on the scoreboard inning after inning, what unfolded before them represented the beginnings of the Era of the Pitcher that would ...
June 12, 2013 - Major League Baseball
Immortal Billionaire Peter Thiel to Write Book Your Weird Uncle Will Give You for Graduation Peter Thiel, the dashing PayPal founder who was born when Ray Kurzweil and a unicorn cyborg mated beneath a full moon, is adding “author” to his long list of accomplishments. The New York Times reports that Mr. Thiel, a utopia-obsessed angel investor who spends a large chunk of his life convincing impressionable geniuses to eschew college degrees, is currently working on a book about “building ...
June 12, 2013 - The New York Observer