The Wet Nurse’s Tale By Erica Eisdorfer Putnam, 259 pp. She’s got breasts, and she knows how to use them. But not the way you think. Susan Rose is a young servant-class woman in early Victorian England. She discovers that her ample endowment can provide not just milk but milk money, and she begins earning […]
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Durham Bulls lose again to Indianapolis Indians: thunder, no lightning
DBAP/ DURHAM—In the sixth inning of the Bulls’ 6-2 loss to Indianapolis, the sky grew ominous, and thunder rumbled in the distance. In the press box, Dave Levine checked the radar, which showed an orange-red storm cell moving toward the DBAP. The Bulls trailed, 3-2. They’d taken a 2-0 lead with single runs in the […]
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Durham Bulls fall again to Indianapolis Indians: thunder, no lightning
DBAP/ DURHAM—In the sixth inning of the Bulls’ 6-2 loss to the Indianapolis Indians, the sky grew dramatically dark and ominous, and you could hear thunder rumbling in the distance. In the press box, Dave Levine was checking the Doppler radar, which was showing an orange-red storm cell moving toward the DBAP. The Bulls trailed, […]
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Durham Bulls fall to Indianapolis Indians: objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.
DBAP/ DURHAM—I had a bunch of really nice tomatoes that I got at the farmers’ market on Saturday, and on Sunday afternoon I made a sauce out of them that I planned to poach some fish in on Monday. Maybe some Spanish Mackerel. The sauce had mint in it, some young garlic, a little fresh […]
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Durham Bulls Beat Indianapolis Indians: “Best team of the year so far.”
DBAP/ DURHAM—The quotation above came from Charlie Montoyo after the Bulls blanked Indianapolis, 2-0—the team’s first shutout since mid-May—and we asked him about the latest swath of changes to cut through the Durham clubhouse (about which more later). There wasn’t much else for Montoyo to say after we prompted him, almost forcibly, and few managers […]
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Durham Bulls beat Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, take three of four (ALSO: big Bulls-on-the-Move news)
Some late-breaking news first. Two significant additions to the Bulls’ roster: Desmond Jennings (pictured, right), who is one of the top prospects in the Rays’ organization, has been promoted to Durham from Double-A Montgomery. The 22-year-old Jennings was hitting .316 for the Biscuits with a .395 OBP and an .881 SLG. He had 25 doubles, […]
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Durham Bulls split doubleheader with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
In one chapter of Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis’s absorbing account of his foray deep into the world of competitive Scrabble, Fatsis narrates the history of the game and its painstaking design by an obsessive tinkerer named Alfred Butts. Butts spent years fussing with the board layout, the premium-square arrangement, and the calibration and distribution of […]
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Durham Bulls rained out at Scranton; doubleheader Thursday (and some rainy-day musing)
The Bulls were rained out at Scranton on Tuesday The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, who play in none of the three places implied by their name, have had 12 games postponed this year. Some of those postponements came on sunny days: the drainage system at PNC Park in Moosic, PA is superannuated and ineffective; after wet weather […]
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Durham Bulls rained out at Scranton; doubleheader Thursday
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankk
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Durham Bulls Beat Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees: Sharp Eedge!
There was so much to report on the game-inside-the-game after Monday’s home win by the Bulls over Norfolk that I completely neglected a key part of the big picture. Although I noted that Elliot Johnson replaced Henry Mateo at the top of the order, I failed to recount what Johnson did there: he went 3-4 […]