John, Didjya See This?

Helen Drinan is one of the many women in Boston: Inspirational Women by Bill Brett and Kerry Brett with, blush, me, from Boston's Three Bean Press

And then this happened... W/ @jeremymjordan of #finding #neverland @americanrep

Ted loved listening to the radio     

 An exclusive excerpt of Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:  Growing up, on Saturday afternoons during football season, Ted [Williams] liked to get home in time to listen to the USC games on radio. He loved Irvine “Cotton” Warburton, a San Diego boy who was the team’s All America quarterback in 1933. “On Saturday night we’d listen to Benny Goodman,” Ted recalled. “Swing bands were the thing then. I still prefer swing to anything else.” His favorite radio program was “Gang Busters,” which, in collaboration with J. Edgar Hoover, dramatized closed FBI cases. Originally launched in 1935 and called “G-men,” the show featured dramatic sound effects of screeching tires, police sirens and tommy-guns.

(PHOTO: Ted Williams passing a football at the Navy Pre-Flight School, 1943. North Carolina Collection, UNC at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library.)

Here's hoping that the folks at @Doubleday books got some rest because half these folks are headed to the Grisham booklet giveaway and signing. #BookMadness

#Slapshot on #Showtime extreme. Had forgotten that Swoozie Kurtz was in this gem. The Hanson Bros.

Me and #Gronk. How much fun is THAT book tour gonna be? I wish I was wrangling on that tour. I mean as much as a Gronk can wrangled. @lindahollidayofficial don't tell Pittsburgh I said that OK?

The CAB Ride turned 3 today!

Oh, happy day. Hadn't realized that April 15 was my Tumblr anniversary.

That's me "letting" Sean get in on a photo with my BFF, the Red Sox World Series 2013 trophy. I'm going to keep this photo up until fall 2014. (Then maybe a trip to Pittsburgh will be in order?) With State Rep. Sean Garballey

After the #TonyAwards are over, I thinking @dianeborger might need some summer reading, curated by me.

Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid” is out. The reviews are starting to come in. The Associated Press review: 

“Absorbing…this is surely the definitive Ted Williams book. …Bradlee’s brilliant account is required reading for any Red Sox fan.  It’s also a fascinating portrait of a complex character that a baseball agnostic or even a Yankees fan will find hard to put down.” Full review here.