Scooter Chronicles

This evening I finished a very long titled baseball novel of fiction. It was written by Robert Coover and published in 1968.

The basis of the story is somewhat simple, and something that I can identify with. J. Henry Waugh has a fantasy baseball league. I used to play Strat-O-Matic with a friend, and we went overboard with things sometimes. And even now I have been in some fantasy leagues (like the Aussie Rules league). But Henry’s goes much further.

It is of his own construction, and a dice rolling game. He has made up all the teams, the players, the coaches and managers, and even those in the executive office. He is...

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In this ARTICLE from ESPN.Com, it appears that the NHL won’t be looking to use replacement players if they can’t reach an agreement with the union. I didn’t think they would actually pursue it, considering the strict laws in Canada that do not allow any business to use replacement employees where a union is concerned. This also could further push the NHL to the brink of extinction.