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| Archived News & Information | Archived April 30, 2002 |
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April 29, 2002 Cosmic Baseball CoachesBohemians Owner Turgenev Fires Thackeray, Hires Dostoyevsky | |
Russian writer and pitcher for the Armageddonia Anarchists, Peter Kropotkin, remarked that, "the artistic qualities of his [Dostoyevsky's] novels are incomparably below those of any one of the great Russian masters..." This doesn't tells us much about the kind of cosmic baseball coach Dostoyevsky is. However, this tidbit might: in 1997 Dostoyevsky left the Bohemians as a disgruntled and angry man unable to communicate effectively with the players. If team owner Turgenev's motives are nationalistic and not focused on what's best for the team on the cosmic baseball field, we can kiss the Bohemians goodbye for awhile.
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April 23, 2002 Cosmic Baseball PlayersEx-Superba Robert Blake Arrested & Charged With Murdering His Wife | |||||
Robert Blake has been in show business practically his entire life. Born Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi in 1933 in New Jersey, Blake's show business parents had him performing by the age of two. The Gubitosi family moved to Southern California in 1939 and young Michael Gubitosi (the name change occurred in 1942) began acting in the Our Gang comedies (also known as The Little Rascals on television.)
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April 21, 2002 Cosmic Baseball PlayersJack Kerouac Baseball Game on Display | ||
The Berg's press information statement for the exhibit entitled Victorians, Moderns and Beats- New In the Berg Collection, 1994-2001 explains that available for public viewing will be,
Special Note to Our Members & Visitors... If you visit the exhibition and would like to write about your experience please consider letting the Cosmic Baseball Association print your words. We would like to get a wide variety of reactions to the Kerouac baseball materials in the Berg Collection. And then we would like to include them in the next issue of the Journal of the Cosmic Baseball Association. For more information, please email editor@cosmicbaseball.com.
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*The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature includes collections of literary first editions, rare books, autograph letters, and manuscripts. It was assembled and presented to The New York Public Library in 1940 by Dr. Albert A. Berg, New York surgeon and trustee of the Library, in memory of his brother, Dr. Henry W. Berg.
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April 15, 2002 Cosmic Baseball OwnersIvan Turgenev Buys Bohemians from Simone de Beauvoir | |
Turgenev was born in 1818 into a wealthy family that lived in Oryol, which is in the Ukraine region. He had a strict domineering mother and spent most of his life in love with a married opera singer, Pauline Garcia Viardot. He went to school in St. Petersburg and in Berlin, Germany. He was a contemporary of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy. Among his most famous work is the novel Fathers and Sons. He also wrote short novels, poems and plays. Several subsequent writers and filmmakers have used his novella "First Love" with its "boy meets girl, father steals girl" theme as a model for their own creative expression. Compare Charles Simmons' 1998 novel Salt Water. Maximillian Schell directed and starred in the 1970 movie called First Love and as recently as 2000 the filmmaker Reverge Anselmo made Lover's Prayer (also known as All Forgotten.) The poet Anna Marie Kersade has announced her own version of the tale tentatively titled, "The Wild Child is Father to the Wild Man." Note: Kersade's approach is novel: she examines the theme from the point of view of one character. The boy that meets the girl becomes the father that steals the same girl.
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April 8, 2002 Cosmic Baseball CoachesSeverino Antinori Replaces David Hume as Ionians Coach | |
Antinori, who has no known prior experience with baseball of any kind, is a controversial figure in the science world. He was born in 1945 in the village of Abruzzo located in central-southern Italy. In 1972, he received a medical degree from the University of Rome. Sometime in the early 1970s, his interest in human fertility was sparked by the research of Patrick Steptoe, a British embryologist. He began focusing on the plight of usually well-to-do infertile couples. In the 1980s Antinori achieved recognition for pioneering the so-called subzonal insemination technique (SUZI) which led to the development of the so-called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) process whereby a single sperm cell is directly injected into an oocyte (female egg.) In 1989, he helped a 47-year old woman become the first woman to give birth after the onset of menopause. In 1994, Rosanna Della Corte, with Antinori's help, set a world record as the oldest woman to give birth; she was 63 years old. Antinori's research has led him into the minefield that is sometimes referred to as "genetic engineering" or more popularly, "cloning." In 2001, he announced his intention of "cloning" human beings. Bioethicists have raised many questions regarding this technology. While the process of "genetic reprogramming" as Antinori calls it does not produce a perfect or identical clone, critics wonder, for example, what the psychological implications are for a child born a biological twin of its father. Freud's notion that the "child is father to the man" takes on an even more uncanny connotation.
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