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Decade of Drought Brings Harvest

By Talmage Boston on November 1, 2009 2:04 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Entering the 2009 season, the picture looked bleak for the Texas Rangers. Coming off 2008, when attendance dropped to a 20-year low, many wondered if the team’s train had enough steam to leave the station.

Season ticket holders had declined almost 10 percent. No big-name free agents had been signed to generate fan interest. Negative press had arisen in the off-season over the team’s moving veteran Gold Glove shortstop Michael Young to third base in deference to untested 20-year-old rookie Elvis Andrus. And the dismal economy produced expectations that fans would be cutting their baseball-spending budgets.

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Talmage on John Grisham's New Novel

By Talmage Boston on February 27, 2009 8:12 PM | 1 Comment | 0 TrackBacks
Talmage Boston, John Grisham, and Nolan Ryan Talmage and his wife Claire attending a baseball game with John Grisham and Nolan & Reese Ryan

Ah, the joys of mid-life for John Grisham!  His climb up the mountain has reached an altitude of sufficient height to provide a philosophical perspective worth sharing, and share it he does in his sensational new novel, The Associate.

Yes, of course, the new book released last month immediately shot to Number One on all the best-seller lists; and, no, the writer of this column is NOT going to give away the plot and surprise ending.
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Missing the Sign

By Talmage Boston on May 16, 2008 5:26 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
On March 12, Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley was asked at an SMU Athletic Forum luncheon, “If you could trade places with anyone else in the world today, in any arena, who would it be?” 

Always glib, and in the aftermath of the Governor of New York’s resignation earlier that day, Sir Charles replied, “Gosh, if you’d asked me that question a week ago, I would have said Eliot Spitzer.”

If asked the same question this week, Mr. Barkley might well answer, “If you’d asked me that question last fall, I would have said Roger Clemens.”
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