Gary
https://www.goodreads.com/gzil
I Am Pilgrim
by
Not everybody knows this—or cares probably—but the first law of forensic science is called Locard’s Exchange Principle and it says “every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace.”
“Don Brown, a former counselor at the camp, recalls that one kid who wasn’t awestruck was Joe Coleman, a local high school pitching phenom who would go on to the major leagues. Coleman was also the son of the Philadelphia Athletics pitcher of the same name who had been Ted’s roommate in 1942 at Amherst College, Williams’s first stop during World War II. “Joe Coleman was pitching and striking everyone out,” said Brown. “Ted came over in his street clothes and Coleman was taunting him: ‘You couldn’t hit me, old man!’ Ted never said a word. He just went up to the plate and hit the next four pitches out, into the oak trees four hundred feet away, then put the bat down and walked out. Never said a word. He was about five years out of the game. In street clothes.”16”
― Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
― Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
“Isn’t man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?”
― Shōgun, Part 1
― Shōgun, Part 1
Gary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Gary
Lists liked by Gary





























