{"id":25940,"date":"2020-04-03T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25940"},"modified":"2020-04-02T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:55:42","slug":"book-report-made-to-be-broken-by-allen-st-john-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/03\/book-report-made-to-be-broken-by-allen-st-john-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Made To Be Broken<\/i> by Allen St. John (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/madetobebroken.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">Well, I got this book from ABC Books <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/good-book-hunting-march-30-2020-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this week<\/a>, and I was so achy for sports that I jumped right into it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a photograph-laden book with 50 different streaks and records that the author thinks are important across sports, including Joe DiMaggio&#8217;s hitting streak, Ty Cobb&#8217;s batting average, Johnny Unitas&#8217;s touchdown pass streak, Rickey Henderson&#8217;s stolen base and runs scored records, as well as tennis, golf, and Olympic records.<\/p>\n<p>I remember most the baseball and football ones from real life even though I might not have lived in their times just because they&#8217;re the legends of the game even though they weren&#8217;t Brewers, Cardinals, or Packers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the records have been broken since the book was published (Mark Spitz&#8217;s gold medals in an Olympics, Dan Marino&#8217;s career passing yardage&#8211;twice) and one has been stripped (Lance Armstrong&#8217;s Tour de France wins).  So not all of them will last the ages.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting and quick browse between heavier works, and a pleasant interlude.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got this book from ABC Books this week, and I was so achy for sports that I jumped right into it. It&#8217;s a photograph-laden book with 50 different streaks and records that the author thinks are important across sports, including Joe DiMaggio&#8217;s hitting streak, Ty Cobb&#8217;s batting average, Johnny Unitas&#8217;s touchdown pass streak, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25941,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940\/revisions\/25941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}