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goalhofer · 23 days

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2024 Houston Astros Roster

Pitchers

#35 Justin Verlander (Goochland County, Virginia)

#39 Miguel Díaz (San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic)*

#43 Lance McCullers; Jr. (Tampa, Florida)

#47 Rafael Montero (Higuerito, Dominican Republic)

#50 Tayler Scott (Johannesburg, South Africa)*

#52 Bryan Abreu (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

#53 Cristian Javier (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

#55 Thomas Pressly (Irving, Texas)

#56 Ronel Blanco (Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic)

#57 William Murfee (Nashville, Tennessee)*

#58 Hunter Brown (St. Clair Shores, Michigan)

#59 Framber Valdez (Sabana Grande De Palenque, Dom Rep)

#61 Seth Martinez (Sierra Vista, Arizona)

#62 John Sousa (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)

#63 Oliver Ortega (Nagua, Dominican Republic)*

#64 Brandon Bielak (Sayreville, New Jersey)

#65 José Urquidy (Mazatlán, Mexico)

#66 Shawn Dubin (Allegany, New York)

#68 J.P. France (St. Charles Parish, Louisiana)

#71 Josh Hader (Anne Arundel County, Maryland)*

#77 Luis García (Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela)

Catchers

#17 Víctor Caratini (Ciudad Coamo, Puerto Rico)*

#21 Yainer Díaz (Azua De Compostella, Dominican Republic)

Infielders

#2 Alex Bregman (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

#3 Jeremy Peña (Providence, Rhode Island)

#14 Mauricio Dubón (San Pedro Sula, Honduras)

#16 Grae Kessinger (Oxford, Mississippi)

#27 José Altuve (Maracay, Venezuela)

#28 Jon Singleton (Long Beach, California)

#79 José Abreu (Cruces, Cuba)

Outfielders

#6 Jake Meyers (Omaha, Nebraska)

#20 Chas McCormick (West Chester, Pennsylvania)

#30 Kyle Tucker (Tampa, Florida)

#44 Yordan Álvarez (Ciudad Las Tunas, Cuba)

Coaches

Manager Josue Espada (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Bench coach Omar López (Valencia, Venezuela)

Hitting coach Alex Cintrón (Ciudad Humacao, Puerto Rico)

Assistant hitting coach Troy Snitker (Snellville, Georgia)

Pitching coach Josh Miller (Melbourne Beach, Florida)

Bullpen coach Bill Murphy (Cranford Township, New Jersey)

Bullpen catcher Javier Bracamonte (Santiago De León De Caracas)

1B coach Dave Clark (Tupelo, Mississippi)

3B coach Gary Pettis (Oakland, California)

Assistant coach Jason Bell (Houston, Texas)

Assistant coach Jason Kanzler (Penfield, New York)

Assistant coach Michael Collins (Canberra, Australia)

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honey-minded-hivemind · 1 month

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Some books and plays I have read that are older than me oand/or were written before I was born:

Plays:

• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

• The Tempest by William Shakespeare

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Fairy Tales and Fables:

• The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Most Incredible Thing by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Frogs and the Ox;Belling the Cat;The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse;The Fox and the Grapes;The Wolf and the Crane;The Lion and the Mouse;The Crow and the Pitcher; The Fox and the Stork;The Fox and the Leopard;The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing;The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat;The Lion's Share;The Wolves and the Sheep;The Ass in the Lion's Skin;The Farmer and the Snake; They Dog and the Oyster;The Wolf and the House Dog;Three Bullocks and a Lion; The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers;The Dogs and the Fox;The Farmer and the Cranes; and The Goose and the Golden Egg... by Aesop

• The Frog King; Cat and Mouse Partnership; The Story if the Youth Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was; The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids; Faithful John; Little Brother and Little Sister; Rapunzel; The Three Little Mean in the Wood; Hansel and Gretel; The Three Snake-Leaves; The White Snake; The Fisherman and His Wife; The Valiant Little Tailor; Cinderella; The Riddle; The Mouse, The Bird, and the Sausage; Mother Holle; The Seven Ravens; Little Red Cap; The Singing Bone; Clever Hans; The Wedding of Mrs. Fox; The Robber Bridergroom; Godfather Death; The Juniper Tree; The Six Swans; Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty); Little Snow White; Rumpelstiltskin; The Golden Bird; The Dog and the Sparrow; Frederick and Catherine; The Two Brothers; The Queen Bee; The Three Feathers; The Golden Goose; The Twelve Hunters; The Three Sons of Fortune; The Wiof and the Fox; The Fox and His Cousin; The Water Nixie; Brother Lustig; The Fox and the Geese; The Poor Man and the Rich Man; The Raven; The Peasant's Wise Daughter; Stories about Snakes; Hans the Hedgehog; The Three Brothers; Ferdinand the Faithful; One-eye, Two-eyes, and Three-eyes; The Shoes that Were Danced To Pieces; Iron John; The Lambkin and the Fish; The Lord's Animals and the Devil's; The Old Beggar Woman; Odds and Ends; The Sparrow and His Four Children; Snow White and Rose Red; The Wise Servant; The Glass Coffin; The Griffin; The Peasant in Heaven; The Bittern and Hoopoe; The Owl; Death's Messengers; The Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle; The Drummer; The Ear of Corn; Old Rinkrank... written/retold by the Brothers' Grimm

The 1800s- late 1930s set books:

• Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

• White Fang by Jack London

• Call of the Wild by Jack London

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Edgar Allan Poe Works I've Read:

• The Raven; a poem

• Annabel Lee; a poem

• Lenore; a poem

• To Helen; a poem

• The Black Cat; a short story

• The Cask of Amontillado; a short story

• Ligeia; a short story

• The Masque of the Red Death; a short story

• Morella; a short story

• The Pit and the Pendulum; a short story

• The Premature Burial; a short story

• The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether; a short story

• The Tell-Tale Heart; a short story

Oldie But Goldies; Everything Else Thst is Older Than Me That I've Read:

• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

• Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; and The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

• Redwall by Brian Jacques

• Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

There is a lot I've probably read but don't remember, but these are the literatures I can remember that are older than me, or were made before I was born, that I have read😊

#honeycomb thoughts

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brookstonalmanac · 10 months

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Events 6.23

229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships. 1280 – The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile. 1305 – A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge. 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins. 1532 – Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. 1565 – Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta. 1594 – The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board. 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again. 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. 1757 – Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey. 1758 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. 1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia. 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township). 1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv. 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. 1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war. 1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office. 1865 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army. 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer". 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park. 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. 1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran. 1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire. 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia. 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam. 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States. 1940 – Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the city. 1940 – Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act. 1951 – The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched. 1956 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa. 1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world. 1961 – The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force. 1967 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference. 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. 1969 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. 1972 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. 1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds. 1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. 1985 – A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. 1991 – Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise. 1994 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center. 2001 – The 8.4 Mw  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. 2012 – Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials. 2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. 2013 – Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide. 2014 – The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction. 2016 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%. 2017 – A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others. 2018 – Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.

#Events

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mysterious-secret-garden · 3 years

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William John Charles Pitcher (1858-1925), known as Wilhelm or C. Wilhelm, was an English artist, costume and scenery designer, best known for his designs for ballets, pantomimes, comic operas, and Edwardian musical comedies. (x)

#William John Charles Pitcher #fairies

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pleasuresoftheduke · 6 years

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FLORAL ALLEGORIES | William John Charles Pitcher (C.1858-1925)

#20th Century #Edwardian #William John Charles Pitcher #Dapper #Period Costume #Theater

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duggardata · 2 years

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Didn’t realize so many Duggars shared a name! Would you mind doing a similar post for the Bates as well?

[ Follow–Up To This Post Re: Duggar Family Names ]

Sure, why not! Here goes...

Bateses Who Share A Name w/ A Parent

William Gilvin (“Gil”) Bates, Jr. / William Gilvin (“Bill”) Bates, Sr.

Kelly Jo (Callaham) Bates / Betty Jo (Smith) Pitcher

Zachary Gilvin Bates / William Gilvin (“Gil”) Bates, Jr.

William Lawson (”Lawson”) Bates / William Gilvin (“Gil”) Bates, Jr.

Josie Kellyn Bates / Kelly Jo (Callaham) Bates

Bradley Gilvin Bates / Zachary Gilvin Bates

Khloé Eileen Bates / Whitney Eileen (Perkins) Bates

Charles Stephen (“Carson”) Paine IV / Charles Stephen (“Chad”) Paine III

Brooklyn Elise Paine / Erin Elise (Bates) Paine

Zoey Joy Webster / Alyssa Joy (Bates) Webster

Robert Ellis (“Kade”) Smith IV / Robert Ellis (“Bobby”) Smith III

Also, Allie Jane Webster is arguably named after her mother, Alyssa Joy (Bates) Webster, though it’s unclear if that was Alyssa + John’s intent in naming her.

2nd–Gen. Bates Spouses Who Share A Name w/ A Parent—

Charles Stephen (“Chad”) Paine III / Dr. Charles Stephen Paine, Jr.

Robert Ellis (“Bobby”) Smith III / Robert Ellis (“Rob”) Smith, Jr.

Bateses Who Share A Name w/ A Grandparent

William Gilvin (“Gil”) Bates / Clarence Gilvin Bates

Kelly Jo (Callaham) Bates / Joseph Clark (“Joe”) Smith

Zachary Gilvin Bates / William Gilvin (“Bill”) Bates, Sr.

William Lawson (“Lawson”) Bates / William Gilvin (“Bill”) Bates, Sr.

Kenneth Nathaniel “Nathan” Bates / Kenneth Hubbard Callaham

Josie Kellyn (Bates) Balka / Betty Jo (Smith) Pitcher

Bradley Gilvin Bates / William Gilvin (“Gil”) Bates, Jr.

Kaci Lynn Bates / Terry Lynn (“Lynn”) (Berry) Perkins

Jadon Carl Bates / Jimmy Carl (“J.C.”) Perkins

Charles Stephen (“Carson”) Paine IV / Dr. Charles Stephen Paine, Jr.

Finley Marie Paine / Tammy Maria (Barnhill) Paine

Allie Jane Webster / Linda Jane (“Jane”) (Hartsell) Bates

Maci Jo Webster / Kelly Jo (Callaham) Bates

Robert Ellis (“Kade”) Smith IV / Robert Ellis (“Rob”) Smith, Jr.

Willow Kristy Balka / Kristy Ann (Dotson) Balka

2nd–Gen. Bates Spouses Who Share A Name w/ A Grandparent—

Charles Stephen (“Chad”) Paine III / Charles Stephen Paine, Sr.

Robert Ellis (“Bobby”) Smith III / Robert Ellis Smith, Sr.

Evan Patrick Stewart / Patrick Ezell DeWire

Kelton Edward Balka / Gerald Kelton (“Jerry”) Dotson, Jr. and Herman Edward Balka

Bateses Who Share A Name w/ A Great–Grandparent

Kelly Jo (Callaham) Bates / Omie Josephine (Stephens) Smith

Zachary Gilvin Bates / Clarence Gilvin Bates

Josie Kellyn (Bates) Balka / Joseph Clark (“Joe”) Smith

Jackson Ezekiel Bates / Herbert Jackson Hartsell

Bradley Gilvin Bates / William Gilvin (“Bill”) Bates, Sr.

Charles Stephen (“Carson”) Paine IV / Charles Stephen Paine, Sr.

Holland Grace Paine / Grace Elizabeth (McKinney) Paine

Allie Jane Webster / Linda Jane (“Jane”) (Hartsell) Bates

Maci Jo Webster / Betty Jo (Smith) Pitcher

Robert Ellis (“Kade”) Smith IV / Robert Ellis Smith, Sr.

Bateses Who Share A Name w/ An Aunt or Uncle

Kenneth Nathaniel “Nathan” Bates / Kenneth Hubbard (“Chip”) Callaham, Jr.

Katie Grace (Bates) Clark / Elizabeth Grace (“Beth”) (Miller) Coble

Everly Hope Paine / Addallee Hope Bates

Holland Grace Paine / Katie Grace (Bates) Clark

2nd–Gen. Bates Spouses Who Share A Name w/ An Aunt or Uncle—

Whitney Eileen (Perkins) Bates / Aileen Euvora (Berry) Dean

Travis James Clark / Casey James Gleockler

Bateses Who Share A Name w/ A Cousin

Josie Kellyn (Bates) Balka / Kelly Nicole (Mount) Jenkins

Addallee Hope Bates / Hope Lovette Mount

Bateses Who Share A Name w/ A Sibling

As of January 2022, there’s no overlap in siblings’ first or middle names.

#names

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sleepingdragonhq · 4 years

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Costume Contest

Hey guys !! Below the read more is the whole list of costumes and another list for the couples costume (platonic pairs specified for their own category). If we’re missing any or have made a mistake, please let us know. You can find the voting form here. You must put five choices for each for the point system to work. The winners will be announced next week !!

Adabella Skeeter - Rose (Titanic)

Adeline Mulciber - Velma (Scooby Doo)

Aiden Wolffe - Cowboy

Alastair Watson - Steve Rogers / Captain America (Marvel)

Albus Potter - James Bond (James Bond)

Alexander Hawthorne - Sailor (V-J Day in Times Square)

Alice Longbottom II - Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time)

Amara Bones - Peter Pan (Peter Pan)

Anthony Rosier - Flynn Rider (Tangled)

Archer Selwyn - Spider-Man (Spider-Man)

Ariadne McLaggen - Lola (Looney Tunes)

Ariella Belefleur - Anna (Frozen)

Aryana Robins - Shego (Kim Possible)

Ash Rookwood - Gardener

August Fawley - Werewolf

Aurora Claremont - Bunny

Avalon Mulciber - Megara (Hercules)

Benjamin Ollivander - Flynn Rider (Tangled)

Bentley Lockhart - Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)

Brianna Avery - Mary Sanderson (Hocus Pocus)

Caleb Cresswell - Ash Ketchum (Pokemon)

Callista McGonagall - Harley Quinn (Suicide Squad)

Camille McGonagall - Mrs. Smith (Mr & Mrs Smith)

Candice Cresswell - Morticia Addams (Addams Family)

Casey Abrams - Sally (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Caspian Berrycloth - Poseidon (Mythology)

Cassius Cresswell - George Washington

Cecily Prewett - Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

Celestina Shacklebolt - Playboy Bunny

Charles Villiers - Gomez Addams (Addams Family)

Charlotte Watson - Mia (La La Land)

Chase Sayre - Burt Macklin (Parks & Rec)

Clara Arquette - Captain America (Marvel)

Colm McCarthy - Flash (Zootopia)

Darcy Mulciber - Loki (Marvel)

Declan Rowland - Stanley Ipkiss (The Mask)

Delilah Flume - Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Dev MacMillan - Devil

Diana Rosier - Rapunzel (Tangled)

Dominic Whitehorn - Golden Snitch

Elaine Greengrass - Belle (Beauty & the Beast)

Electra Carrow - Daisy Buchanan (Great Gatsby)

Elena Flores - Baby (Dirty Dancing)

Elide Weasley - Cactus

Elijah Nolan - JD (Heathers)

Elisaveta Hagen - Queen

Elizabeth Greenwood - Veronica (Heathers)

Elsa Lestrange - Snow Queen

Ember Fortescue - Ice Cream

Emma Pickering - Elphaba (Wicked)

Evan Parkinson - Cowboy

Everett Pickering - Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

Ezra Bishop - Fiyero (Wicked)

Finley Murray - Marty McFly (Back to the Future)

Fletcher Duke - Nightwing (DC Comics)

Frank Longbottom - Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Freya Avery - Winnie Sanderson (Hocus Pocus)

Gabriel Larkin - Jack (Titanic)

Grace Turner - Spider-Gwen (Spider-Man)

Gwendolyn Hawkes - Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Harley Burke - Mabel (Gravity Falls)

Hazel MacDougal - Rachel Green (Friends)

Hudson Burke - Dipper (Gravity Falls)

Hugo Granger-Weasley - Wally (Where’s Wally?)

Isabelle Crawford - Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)

James Ashcroft - Steve Harrington (Stranger Things)

James Potter - Firefighter

Jasper Locklear - Romeo (Romeo + Juliet)

Jaxon DuQuan - The Invisible Man

Jonah Finch - Cosmo (Fairly Odd Parents)

Josephine Goldstein - Squirrel Girl (Marvel)

Joshua Selwyn - Baseball Player / Pitcher

Julia Kominek - Bonnie Parker

June Finch - Wanda (Fairly Odd Parents)

Katherine Robertson - A Phoenix

Kristoff Flynn - Johnny (Dirty Dancing)

Laurel Ollivander - Pink Power Ranger (Power Rangers)

Lena Macmillan - Wednesday Addams (Addams Family)

Liam Kominek - Joker (Suicide Squad)

Lily Potter - Princess Merida (Brave)

Long Huojin - PT Barnum (The Greatest Showman)

Lorcan Scamander - Clyde Barrow

Lucia Rodriguez - America Chavez / Miss America (Marvel)

Lucienne Wolffe - The Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland)

Lucy Weasley - Cruella DeVil (101 Dalmatians)

Lyra Malfoy - Juliet (Romeo + Juliet)

Lysander Scamander - 1/2 of Beer Pong

Lysandra Rowle - Flower

Mackenzie Finnigan-Thomas - Dalmatian

Maeve O’Hare - Elastigirl (The Incredibles)

Manon Flamel - Sarah Sanderson (Hocus Pocus)

Marcus Carson - Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)

Margot Fontaine - Alice Kingsleigh (Alice in Wonderland)

Matthias Vallois - Kristoff (Frozen)

Meredith Wayfelle - Violet Beauregarde (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

Michael Thorne - Jon Snow (Game of Thrones)

Milo Fox - Peter’s Shadow (Peter Pan)

Molly Weasley - Nurse (V-J Day in Times Square)

Mortimer Claremont - Milo Thatch (Atlantis)

Natalie Davies - Red Riding Hood (Red Riding Hood)

Natalya Dolohova - Quidditch Player

Nesta Greenwood - Anastasia (Anastasia)

Nile Harb - Burt (Mary Poppins)

Octavia Coleman - Cher Horowitz (Clueless)

Odette Flume - Janet Snakehole (Parks & Rec)

Orion Yaxley - Danny Zuko (Grease)

Peggy Carson - Peggy Carter (Marvel)

Pepper Rosewood - White Angel

Pippa Rosewood - Black Angel

Penelope Hawthorne - Ariel (The Little Mermaid)

Perseus Mulciber - Prince Eric (The Little Mermaid)

Poppy Zabini - 1/2 of Beer Pong

Reid Anderson - Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Rhiannon Prewett - Persephone (Mythology)

Rosalie Fleur - Samara (The Ring)

Rose Granger-Weasley - Beyoncé

Scorpius Malfoy - Skeleton

Sebastian Nott - Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)

Seraphina - Sandy (Grease)

Seung Krum - Baseball Player / Catcher

Skye MacDougal-Ollivander - Rapunzel (Tangled)

Sofia Clarke - Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)

Tallulah Abbott - Patrick Star (Spongebob Squarepants)

Teddy Lupin - James Ashcroft

Theodore Dubanowski - Hunter (Red Riding Hood)

Theodore Oliver - Green Soldier (Toy Story)

Theseus McLaggen - Mr. Smith (Mr & Mrs Smith)

Tiberius Flume - Error 404 Costume Not Found

Tobias Atwell - Hugh Hefner

Toby Anderson - Sebastian (La La Land)

Verity Nott - Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things)

Victoire Weasley - Cinderella (Cinderella)

Vivian Chang - Spongebob Squarepants (Spongebob Squarepants)

Wesley Martin - Shaggy (Scooby Doo)

William Ashcroft - Hades (Mythology)

pair costumes

Adabella Skeeter & Gabriel Larkin - Rose & Jack (Titanic)

Adeline Mulciber & Wesley Martin - Velma & Shaggy (Scooby Doo)

Aiden Wolffe & Evan Parkinson - Cowboys

Alastair Watson & Peggy Carson - Steve Rogers & Peggy Carter (Marvel) - platonic

Alexander Hawthorne & Molly Weasley - Sailor & Nurse ( V-J Day in Times Square)

Anthony & Diana Rosier - Flynn Rider & Rapunzel (Tangled)

Ariella Belefleur & Matthias Vallois - Anna & Kristoff (Frozen)

Ash Rookwood & Lysandra Rowle - Gardener & Flower - platonic

Benjamin Ollivander & Skye MacDougal-Ollivander - Rapunzel & Flynn RIder (Tangled)

Bentley Lockhart & Everett Pickering - Sherlock Holmes & Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes) - platonic

Callista McGonagall-Kominek & Liam Kominek - Harley Quinn & Joker (Suicide Squad)

Casey Abrams & Frank Longbottom - Sally & Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Charles Villiers & Candice Cresswell - Gomez & Morticia Addams (Addams Family)

Chase Sayre & Odette Flume - Burt Macklin & Janet Snakehole (Parks & Rec) - platonic

Dominic Whitehorn & Natalya Dolohova - Snitch & Quidditch Player - platonic

Elizabeth Greenwood & Elijah Nolan - Veronica & JD (Heathers)

Emma Pickering & Ezra Bishop - Elphaba & Fiyero (Wicked)

Grace Turner & Archer Selwyn - Spider-Gwen & Spider-Man (Spider-Man)

Harley Burke & Hudson Burke - Mabel & Dipper (Gravity Falls) - platonic

James Ashcroft & Verity Nott - Steve Harrington & Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things)

James Potter & Mackenzie Finnigan-Thomas - Firefighter & Dalmatian

Jasper Locklear & Lyra Malfoy - Romeo & Juliet (Romeo + Juliet) - platonic

Jonah & June Finch - Cosmo & Wanda (Fairly Odd Parents) - platonic

Joshua Selwyn & Seung Krum - Pitcher & Catcher / Baseball Players

Kristoff Flynn & Elena Flores - Johnny & Baby (Dirty Dancing) - platonic

Lorcan Scamander & Julia Kominek - Bonnie & Clyde

Lysander Scamander & Poppy Zabini - Beer Pong - platonic

Milo Fox & Amara Bones - Peter Pan & His Shadow (Peter Pan) - platonic

Nile Harb & Sofia Clarke - Burt & Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins) - platonic

Orion Yaxley & Seraphina MacAuley - Danny & Sandy (Grease)

Perseus Mulciber & Penelope Hawthorne - Prince Eric and Ariel (The Little Mermaid)

Pippa Rosewood & Pepper Rosewood - Black & White Angels - platonic

Sebastian Nott & Ariadne McLaggen - Bugs Bunny & Lola (Looney Tunes)

Tallulah Abbott & Vivian Chang - Spongebob & Patrick (Spongebob Squarepants) - platonic

Theodore Dubanowski & Natalie Davies (ft. Apolline) - Hunter & Red Riding Hood (ft. Wolf)

Theseus McLaggen & Camille McGonagall - Mr & Mrs Smith (Mr & Mrs Smith) - platonic

Tobias Atwell & Celestina Shacklebolt - Hugh Hefner & Playboy Bunny

Toby Anderson & Charlotte Watson - Sebastian & Mia (La La Land)

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William John Charles Pitcher (21 March 1858 – 2 March 1925), known as Wilhelm or C. Wilhelm The Child of the Air

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Costume design by Wilhelm (William Charles John Pitcher) for ‘Bad Company’, 1892

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Streaming Movies to Keep Your Summer Interesting

As the summer of quarantine continues apace, the streaming services are upping their game, offering the kind of blockbuster entertainments we’d normally flock to the multiplex to consume with a box of popcorn and an ice-cold drink. But they only have a handful of those in the tank, and there are still many hours in the day. So, once again, it’s time to recommend a few out-of-the-box selections from your subscription streaming services — the offbeat biopics, quirky comedies, gritty dramas and cuckoo documentaries worth digging around for.

‘The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete’

Stream it on Amazon Prime and Hulu.

Mister (Skylan Brooks) and Pete (Ethan Dizon) are two Brooklyn projects kids on their own, their fathers absent and mothers lost to the ravages of addiction. This tough drama from the director George Tillman Jr. (“Soul Food,” “The Hate U Give”) is a portrait of desperation and despair, dramatizing the kind of no-romance poverty that seldom makes it to the screen intact. But if Michael Starrbury’s script pulls no punches, it also finds moments of lightness and levity in their grim story. Brooks and Dizon are astonishing young actors, while Anthony Mackie and an all-but-unrecognizable Jennifer Hudson make maximum impact in their brief appearances.

A similar story of tough times in the boroughs, as the title character (Slick Woods), just 18, struggles to keep her family together when her mother is arrested. She’s got outsized dreams, imagining herself as an influencer and performer, but the direness of her situation threatens to crush her spirits, and the picture often plays as a subtle indictment of the limited options available to young Black women like her. Woods is stunning in the lead, and the writer and director Sam de Jong offsets the melancholy at the story’s center with a light touch, offhand intimacy and grainy, throwback aesthetic that recalls earlier New York indies like “Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.” and “She’s Gotta Have It.”

‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’

Stream it on Hulu.

Disappointed that we’re not getting the “Wonder Woman” sequel we were promised this summer? As an alternative, check out her fascinating and unexpectedly sexy origin story. The life that “Wonder Woman” creator William Marston shared with two women — his wife and their lover — and their mutual experimentation with bondage helped inspire the comic book character, as well as some of her more controversial early imagery. Angela Robinson, the writer and director, draws those parallels clearly and cleverly, but “Wonder Women” is most remarkable for the nuance it gives to its central relationship, treating what could’ve been a giggly sexcapade with genuine complexity and sensitivity. It’s not just another biopic; this is a lovely story about not only finding love, but understanding and accepting it, on its own terms.

Another unexpectedly ribald biopic, this giggly treat from the writer and director Madeleine Olnek stars Molly Shannon as the notoriously reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, here reimagined as a cheerfully gregarious party girl. (The film predates the similarly conceived Apple series “Dickinson.”) The title, and casting of the “S.N.L.” alum Shannon, suggests a jokey sendup for literary types — and though Olnek’s script and execution are winking and witty, she wrestles with serious themes, dramatizes fully realized relationships and poses pointed questions about how legacies are devised and maintained.

‘Most Beautiful Island’

Stream it on Amazon Prime.

Ana Asensio writes, directs and stars in this harrowing but rewarding drama as a young, struggling, undocumented Spanish immigrant in New York City who is offered an opportunity to dig out of her considerable financial hole with one night’s work — an offer that sounds too good to be true, and proves to be exactly that. Asensio is a powerful performer (she creates empathy from frame one, and holds it), and the real deal as a filmmaker, creating palpable, almost unbearable tension and dread throughout the film’s long, scary night.

‘Straight Up’

Stream it on Netflix.

When Todd (James Sweeney) and Rory (Katie Findlay) first meet, they bond over a shared love of “Gilmore Girls.” The influence of that show’s rat-tat-tat dialogue, pop culture savvy and unabashed sentimentality are all over this unconventional romantic comedy. Sweeney also wrote and directed, augmenting the normally drab rom-com template with a cornucopia of quirky and unexpected visual flourishes, and his screenplay is painfully astute, displaying an enviable ear for how the affectations and witticisms of dating fall away, with the right partner, to confession and vulnerability.

‘Fort Tilden’

Stream it on Amazon Prime.

The story is deceptively simple: two young Williamsburg women (played with delicious smarm by Bridey Elliott and Clare McNulty) try to traverse Brooklyn for a day at the beach. But the writing and directing duo of Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers use that thin setup as a clothesline, upon which they hang scathingly satirical vignettes of borough bohemia, and the degrees to which these unapologetically self-involved characters will undercut each other, and themselves. The laughs may sting a bit, depending on how closely you’re situated to this world, but they land like punches in a heavyweight bout.

‘The Sunset Limited’

Stream it on HBO Max.

Tommy Lee Jones and the “No Country for Old Men” author Cormac McCarthy reunited for this made-for-HBO effort, which the writer adapted from his 2006 play. Jones both directs and plays White, an atheist professor who has just attempted suicide. Samuel L. Jackson is the born-again convict who has saved White’s body, and now tries to save his soul. That’s the entire premise — two men in one apartment, arguing over the very nature of existence — and if it sounds dull or stage-bound, those concerns are quickly laid to rest by the brilliance of McCarthy’s dialogue, the economy of Jones’s direction, and the power of these two bravura performances.

‘My Scientology Movie’

Stream it on Hulu.

The Church of Scientology is notoriously sensitive about its media portrayals, so the British television presenter and filmmaker Louis Theroux probably didn’t expect much in the way of cooperation when he ventured to Los Angeles to make a documentary about their tactics. Instead, he and the director John Dower decide to cast actors for the former Scientology executive Marty Rathbun to “direct” in dramatizations of his revelations. The ensuing exchange of threats and surveillance neatly proves the filmmakers’ point, but “My Scientology Movie” isn’t just a lark; it has much to say about the psychology that draws people into the organization, and how it remains with them even if they break free.

‘Knuckleball!’

Stream it on HBO Max.

Baseball fans looking to fill the summer void will enjoy this informative documentary from the directors Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. Their focus is the wildly unpredictable but often effective no-spin pitch of the title, practiced by only a handful of pitchers at any given time, and only two when the film was shot in the 2011 season: Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox and R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets. The storytelling is compelling and the filmmaking is sharp — particularly the tight close-ups and slow motion photography that capture the power of the pitch — while the subjects are so charismatic and likable that the film concludes on a grace note of unexpected, genuine emotion.

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masterpost of all the plant books i own

this is all the plant books i own minus some suuuper vintage ones that dont matter so imma just gonna. put the casual books up top and all the others under the cut

there are many. my interests are diverse. be warned

FOR PEOPLE CASUALLY INTERESTED IN HAVING A GOOD PLANT TIME

The Plant Messiah - Carlos Magdalena

Reaching for the Sun - John King

Brilliant Green: The surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence (Kindle Edition) - Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola

In Praise of Plants - Francis Halle

The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate (Kindle Edition) - Peter Wohlleben

Botany for Dummies (Kindle Edition) - Rene Fester Kratz

Lab Girl - Hope Jahren. This was given to me by my dad because he heard it was about a female botanist and her fun botany adventures but I haven’t read it yet because it’s currently popular and I’m petty and an edgy stubborn teen that must Avoid Popular Things(tm). that being said its supposed to be really good so putting it here out of the admittance that it’s probably really good and I should read it

TEXTBOOKS AND ACADEMIC

Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family - Deni Bown

Encyclopedia of plant Physiology Volume 18: Higher Plant Cell Respiration - Editied by R. Douce and D. A. Day

Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops Volume 2: Target Traits - Edited by Chittaranjan Kole

Life Processes of Plants - Arthur W. Galston

Green Plants: Their Origin and Diversity (second edition) - Peter R. Bell and Alan R. Hemsley. This is the official textbook for the Botany course at my University. I think of it as “Level 2 botany”?? Like, it’s harder than a college Biology course and rather challenging for me as an undergrad, and I wouldn’t recommend it for beginners, but it’s not as hard as a professional course/reference book.

Pitcher Plants of the Old World Volume 1 - Stewart McPherson

Pitcher Plants of the Old World Volume 2 - Stewart McPherson

New Nepenthes Volume 1 - Stewart McPherson

Introduction to Organic Chemistry (third edition) - William Brown and Thomas Poon

Biology of Plants - Raven, Evert, Eichhorn

Arctic Adaptions in Plants: Monograph Number 6, 1972 - Agriculture Canada

REFERENCE AND NOT QUITE A TEXTBOOK

Taxonomy of Flowering Plants (second edition) - Porter

Common Fossil Plants of Western North America (second edition) - William D. Tidwell

Botanical Microtechnique and Cytochemistry by Berlyn and Miksche. This is from like 1931 lol

Mountain Wild Flowers of Colorado (Museum Pictorial) - Roberts and Nelson

The Botany Coloring Book - Paul Young

The Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin

Iowa’s Living Roadway: Plant Profiler - Iowa Department of Transportation

HORTICULTURAL AND GREENHOUSE CATALOUGES

Miniature Orchids and How to Grow Them - Rebecca Tyson Northern

The Plant Propagator’s Bible - Miranda Smith

Snowdrops - Gunter Waldorf

Modern Miniature Daffodils: Species and Hybrids - James S. Wells

(Catalogue) Proven Winners 2015

(Catalogue) Proven Winners 2017

Hummert’s Helpful Hints (4th Edition) - Hummert????

(Catalogue) PanAmerican Seed and KieftSeed 2018/2019

(Catalogue) Ivy Garth 2016

NOT COMPLETELY BOTANY RELATED

Protein Structure: Molecular and Electronic Reactivity - Edited by R. Austin, E. Buhks, B. Chance, D. DeVault, P. L. Dutton, H. Frauenfelder, V. I. Gol’danskii Okay so I ordered this for my research project and then realized when I got it that it’s waaaaayyyy above my level. Like, not even in my field. I will never in my life be able to comprehend this book but at least I got it for $4

The Biology Coloring Book - Robert D. Griffin

Introduction to Protein Structure (second edition) - Branden and Tooze

Molecular Biology: A Very Short Introduction - Aysha Divan and Janice A. Royds

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli

Field Notes on Science and Nature - Edited by Michael R. Canfield

The Machinery of Life - David S. Goodsell Okay so this is all about molecular machines and stuff??? Like the mechanical components of ATP synthase and all the rest of the literal machines in biological things??? there are also colored electron microscope pics. its really cool

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Kindle Edition) - Nick Lane Discusses why we’re here and how life happened via evolution

Letters to a Young Scientist - Edward O. Wilson this is like the BEST science book and it’s won multiple awards and if you’re a young person going into science AT ALL you should read it 200% rn go read it NOW

(SCIENCE) BOOKS I WANT TO GET (not all about botany but most are)

Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos - Peter M. Hoffmann

Mesostic Herbarium - Alec Finlay a collection of botany and plant poems

We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe - Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry - Bryan Sykes This was recommended to me by a teacher after hearing of my interesting in AOX, a specific plant mitochondrial protein. it talks about using mDNA- DNA strands contained in the mitochondria that are inherited only from the female sex in each and every species of living thing with a mitochondria; for example, we inherit all our mDNA from our mothers, and plants inherit all their mDNA from whatever plant provided the ovary during its conception- to trace our ancestry through the ages to 7 specific women in Africa a super long time ago. He said that it’s impossible to put down.

The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life - Jack Challoner

A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring - Richard Preston

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time - Michael J. Benton ok so earth has gone through 5 major extinctions in its life and this one talks about the largest one that scientists literally call “the great dying”. it casually wiped out 90% of all life on earth and every species of thing alive today is descended from the survivors of that. sleep well

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan

Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants - Richard Mabey

The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature - Monica Gagliano and John C. Ryan

Botany in a Day - Thomas J. Elpel I watched Elpel’s youtube lecture going over this book, and I can verify that it’s great as a starting point for people learning basic plant ID! It’s very simple and applicable and I need to buy the book and read it

#long post #AAAAAAAAA THIS TOOK ME LIKE 2 HOURS TO PUT TOGETHEEERRRR #books

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2023 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster

Pitchers

#23 Mitch Keller (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

#24 Johan Oviedo (Havana, Cuba)

#27 Vince Velasquez (Pomona, California)*

#34 J.T. Brubaker (New Carlisle, Ohio)

#35 Colin Holderman (Bourbonnais Township, Illinois)

#41 Andre Jackson (Pima County, Arizona)*

#43 Ryan Borucki (Fremont Township, Illinois)*

#44 Bailey Falter (Chino Hills, California)*

#48 Luis Ortiz (San Pedro De Macorís, Dominican Republic)

#50 Carmen Mlodzinski (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina)**

#51 David Bednar (Mars, Pennsylvania)

#52 Colin Selby (Chesapeake, Virginia)**

#61 José Hernández (San Felipe De Puerto Plata, DR)**

#62 Kyle Nicolas (Massillon, Ohio)**

#63 Hunter Stratton (Bluff City, Tennessee)**

#64 Charles Priester (Algonquin Township, Illinois)**

#66 Jarlín García (Pedro Brand, Dominican Republic)*

#68 Ángel Perdomo (San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic)*

#73 Felipe Vázquez (San Felipe, Venezuela)

Catchers

#25 Endy Rodríguez (Santiago De Los Caballeros, DR)**

#55 Jason Delay (Johns Creek, Georgia)

Infielders

#3 Ji-Hwan Bae (Daegu, South Korea)

#6 Alfonso Rivas III (Chula Vista, California)*

#13 Ke'Bryan Hayes (Tomball, Texas)

#15 Oneil Cruz (Nizao, Dominican Republic)

#19 Jared Triolo (Austin, Texas)**

#30 Tucupita Marcano (Tucupita, Venezuela)

#60 Liover Peguero (Salvaleón De Higüey, Dominican Republic)

#75 Alexander Williams (San Diego, California)**

Outfielders

#2 Connor Joe (San Diego, California)*

#10 Bryan Reynolds (Brentwood, Tennessee)

#22 Andrew McCutchen (Ft. Meade, Florida)*

#26 Miguel Andújar (San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic)

#32 Henry Davis (Bedford, New York)**

#54 Josh Palacios (Brooklyn, New York)*

#65 Jack Suwinski (Chicago, Illinois)

Coaches

Manager Derek Shelton (Warren Township, Illinois)

Bench coach Don Kelly (Mt. Lebanon Township, Pennsylvania)

Hitting coach Andy Haines (Louisville Township, Illinois)

Assistant hitting coach Christian Marrero (Miami, Florida)

Pitching coach Oscar Marin (Los Angeles, California)

Bullpen coach Justin Meccage (Billings, Montana)

Bullpen catcher Jordan Comadena (Normal, Illinois)

Bullpen catcher Raúl Hernández (Maturín, Venezuela)

1B coach Tarrik Brock (Goleta, California)

3B coach Mike Rabelo (New Port Richey, Florida)

Infield coach Mendy López (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

Game planning/strategy coach Radley Haddad (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Assistant coach Stephen Morales (Ciudad Mayagüez, Puerto Rico)

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Work, Play, Poetry

By Anthony Domestico

March 4, 2020

The life of the late novelist Robert Stone was filled with improbabilities. As Madison Smartt Bell puts it in his new biography, Stone, whose globe-spanning novels took on American history and the American soul, had “a taste for marijuana and alcohol (and for quaaludes and opiates).” In the 1960s, Stone was friends with Ken Kesey; you can imagine how much imbibing that entailed. While in Vietnam on a reporting trip, he experimented with heroin. (He “snorted, smoked, [and] possibly drank it on one occasion,” Bell writes.) Yet Stone lived to the ripe age of seventy-seven, writing a strong novel, Death of the Black-Haired Girl, two years before he died in 2015. “A connoisseur of women of all varieties,” Bell writes, perhaps a little too forgivingly, “Bob was far from above the occasional fling.” He had an open marriage—so open that he had a child with a family friend in the 1960s and a tempestuous affair with a younger writer three decades later. Yet he stayed with his wife Janice for fifty-five years. By Bell’s reckoning, and it seems accurate, theirs was a happy marriage.

But the most pleasant surprise, for me at least, was the decades-long friendship Stone had with Marilynne Robinson. What a literary odd couple they make: Robinson the proud Calvinist and Stone the lapsed Catholic; Robinson known best for her quiet, lovely novels about mid-century Iowa and Stone known best for his wild, prophetic novels—A Hall of Mirrors (1967), A Flag for Sunrise (1981), and others—all probing the manic brain and corrupted heart of American empire. What must the two writers have talked about? The nature of God, I’m sure. (Stone in an interview: “As a result of having been a Catholic, I’m acutely aware of the difference between a world in which there’s a God and a world in which there isn’t.”) The nature of craft, I imagine. (Stone taught at Johns Hopkins and Yale, among other places.)

Bell was friends with Stone, and his affection for his subject comes through. Writing in the first person, Bell recreates trips the two took to Haiti and conversations they had about fiction’s moral purpose. Despite this love, though, Bell doesn’t hold back, especially when it comes to the suffering brought on by Stone’s addictions. The last hundred or so pages are difficult to read, an onslaught of car crashes—Stone was a terrible driver, even when sober—narcotic dependence, increasingly frequent falls, and an attempted suicide. Stone was charismatic, everyone agrees. He was also destructive, to others occasionally and to himself consistently.

Bell is an accomplished novelist in his own right, and Child of Light, like a good work of fiction, lives through its details. Stone “huffed as much oxygen as possible in a back room of Politics and Prose” before giving a reading. David Milch, the producer of Deadwood, put Stone on the payroll at his production company to give him something to do, and some money, after a stint in rehab. Annie Dillard and Joy Williams vacationed with Stone in the 1990s. (Dillard and Stone went white-water tubing in Missoula and saw a brown bear.)

Stone’s writing offers an imaginative record of America’s political and spiritual dimensions: “That is my subject,” Stone wrote, “America and Americans.” Bell reads this wild life and lasting achievement with grace and sympathy.

Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone Madison Smartt Bell Doubleday, $35, 608 pp.

Baseball here is a business, and Nemens gives it to us from all angles

Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. is the best baseball novel ever written, and I won’t hear otherwise. But The Cactus League, the first novel by Paris Review editor Emily Nemens, is also very good.

If Nemens’s debut is not quite in the same league as The Universal Baseball Association, that’s partly because it’s playing a different game. Coover’s is a postmodern novel about the postmodernism of America’s pastime. (We often care less about the game itself than about its statistical representations—batting averages and win shares.) Nemens’s is a work of straightforward realism. Baseball here is a business, and Nemens gives it to us from all angles: superstar outfielders losing fortunes at the gambling table; groupies hanging out by the bullpen; agents hushing up scandals; elderly stadium organists whose stiff hands can’t hit the keys they once could.

The Cactus League takes place in Arizona during spring training. Each chapter, nine in all, follows a different figure associated with the imaginary Los Angeles Lions franchise. Most of the particulars are right. Nemens knows that Notre Dame’s baseball team is in the ACC, and she nicely skewers the increasing encroachment of hot tubs and goofy sound effects in new ballparks. A lovely small detail: Jason Goodyear, the book’s self-sabotaging superstar, gets a signature sneaker—“the first time they’d named a shoe after a ballplayer since Griffey.”

Not everything works. No fan would call a pitcher a “fastballer,” as one character does. (At least it’s not “speedballer,” à la Bruce Springsteen.) No partial owner could demand that a prominent outfielder be traded because of sexual jealousy—and then have it happen within days. (Partial owners don’t have that much power; star players don’t get traded overnight, especially when their replacement has only played college ball.) Such details wouldn’t much matter in a postmodernist romp. They do here.

But the pacing is good and the prose generally strong. Nemens refuses to engage in the romanticizing many fall into when spring comes around. Bartlett Giamatti famously and poetically said that baseball “is designed to break your heart.” After all, Giamatti rhapsodizes, “the game begins in spring…blossoms in the summer…[and] leaves you to face the fall alone.” Fair enough. But Nemens shows how baseball also breaks your heart for more prosaic reasons: because rotator cuffs fray, because spring-training towns are depressing, and because billion-dollar franchises don’t give a fig about poetry.

The Cactus League Emily Nemens Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 288 pp.

In baseball, there can come a point when you’ve so often been described as underrated that you cease to be underrated. Trot Nixon, for example: a decent right fielder in the early 2000s who Red Sox fans so often dubbed underrated that he became overrated. Charles Portis, the Arkansas-born novelist who was famous for being underrated and who died on February 17, never suffered this fate. There’s a certain kind of greatness that, no matter how many times we remark upon it, will always be underrecognized.

People who know Portis, whose out-of-print novels were reissued in the 1990s, probably know him as the author of True Grit. It’s a great novel, and it’s been made into two great movies. But every shaggy-dog story he wrote, every picaresque comedy of American naiveté and dreaminess, was great. His sentences display a funny, poetic, loose yet disciplined, absolutely American prose style. Since his death, fans have been passing around some of their favorite passages. Here are a few of my own. From The Dogs of the South: “I don’t believe we’ve ever had a President, unless it was tiny James Madison with his short arms, who couldn’t have handled Dupree in a fair fight.” From Masters of Atlantis: “It’s not healthy, locking yourself away in here so you can eat pies and read all these monstrous books with f’s for s’s.”

Rest in peace, Charles Portis.

The Dogs of the South and Masters of Atlantis

For decades, the poet and critic Paul Mariani has been a shining light for those interested in the Catholic imagination. We can hear Gerard Manley Hopkins, that great poet of the dark night, when Mariani laments no longer being able to see the “greengold grass, / glistening the bright skin of the copper beeches.” And we can hear Hopkins again, that great poet of the shining day, when Mariani describes “know[ing] that somewhere, now as then, the wind keeps whispering still”—the Holy Spirit moving and transfiguring always, even when we can’t sense it.

Mariani’s new work of criticism, The Mystery of It All, is a twilight book. Its epigraph, addressed to his wife of more than fifty years, begins, “Moon, old moon, dear moon, I beg you / answer when I call out to you.” Its final sentences read, “‘In His Will Is Our Peace.’ The very words I have etched into our gravestone.” In recent years, the eighty-year-old Mariani has been diagnosed and treated for brain cancer. This gives his epilogue, titled “On the Work Still to Be Done,” particular force.

Yet what is most striking about this book is how buoyant it is, how joyful is its account of a life of reading and writing. Hopkins, Stevens, Berryman, O’Connor: they’re all here, and Mariani attends both to their smallest formal decisions and their most expansive metaphysical concerns. “I have read and taught Stevens for over fifty years,” he remarks. “He is someone who never ceases to delight.” Great critics are able to turn the readerly delight they experience transitive: to explain it, yes, but also to pass it on to the reader. By this and many other standards, Mariani is a strong critic.

Here he is on Hopkins’s darkness: “All is unselved, untuned, and, just as violin or catgut strings go slack, all clear voweling lost, so do we, the words themselves as if swallowed, until ‘all is enormous dark / Drowned.’” And here he is on Hopkins’s sacramental, perceptual joy: “Look at the Welsh farmers with their horses in the countryside about him, breaking up the moist clods of earth: how the light shines upon them, catching the quartz glints, in an instant turning them into diamondlike shards of light—‘sheer plod’ itself doing this, allowing the plow and the sillion both to shine in God’s light.”

Even and especially in twilight, Mariani shows us the light.

The Mystery of It All Paul Mariani Paraclete Press, $25, 240 pp.

Even and especially in twilight, Mariani shows us the light.

Hopkins, who broke and remade form in almost everything he wrote, would have loved the poet Jericho Brown. The Tradition is Brown’s third collection of poetry. It’s also his best—the most interesting in form, the most wide-ranging in reference, the most daring in its wedding of the private and public, the spiritual and the sexual.

Brown has talked about reading T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” obsessively while working on this book. Eliot’s influence can be felt in this collection’s sense of tradition speaking to, and being changed by, the present. Eliot’s ghost is here. So too are the ghosts of James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, and Essex Hemphill.

Brown writes several poems in a new form he calls the duplex: a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues. “Though I may not be, I do feel like a bit of a mutt in the world,” Brown has said. Queer, black, and Southern, he wanted to create a form that felt as unlikely as himself. These duplexes work by repetition and reconfiguration. Here’s a snippet:

My first love drove a burgundy car. He was fast and awful, tall as my father.

Steadfast and awful, my tall father Hit hard as a hailstorm. He’d leave marks.

Light rain hits easy but leaves its own mark Like the sound of a mother weeping again.

As seen here, Brown often writes about trauma: the trauma of being a hurt child or a hurt lover; the trauma of being black in America (“I promise if you hear / Of me dead anywhere near / A cop, then that cop killed me”) and the trauma of being queer in America (“My man swears his HIV is better than mine”).

But The Tradition also gives witness to joy—in sex and language, in the traditions of black art and the black church. Brown was raised Baptist, and you can hear this legacy in his imagery and music:

Forgive me, I do not wish to sing Like Tramaine Hawkins, but Lord if I could Become the note she belts halfway into The fifth minute of “The Potter’s House”

When black vocabulary heralds home- Made belief: For any kind of havoc, there is Deliverance!

That duplex I quoted from above begins and ends with the same line: “A poem is a gesture toward home.” Brown finds a temporary home, a form of deliverance, in and through tradition in its many forms.

The Tradition Jericho Brown Copper Canyon Press, $17, 110 pp.

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