Friday, May 08, 2020

Weekend Links 5-8-20

Happy Friday! Hope you have had a safe week this week. Also wishing all mothers a happy Mother's Day this weekend. Here are a few links of interest for your weekend reading. Sorry the post is so brief. Good stories have been hard to find.

It's tempting to think that the legal thriller genre is a fairly new subgenre of crime fiction. The truth is that it's been around for a long time. 

This one is for baseball fans: the curious origins of the dropped third strike rule. 

Speaking of baseball rules, here are ten baseball rules that you probably didn't even know existed. Some of these are pretty odd.

While we wait here in the United States for Major League Baseball to return we can at least get our baseball fix by watching Korean baseball and that's a good thing. I can attest that it's been fun to watch the KBO on television. 

Nancy Wake may not be a household name but she was the most decorated heroine of World War II. Her story is a fascinating one.

Here are seven libraries you can tour from the comfort of your sofa.

Finding space for art in dark times - an essay on the creation of Captain America.

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