The gents at Lambda the Ultimate note that John Meacham has set up a Cafe Press Bookstore for Haskell books, including Simon Peyton-Jones and James Lester’s Implementing Functional Languages. Peyton-Jones’ Design and Implementation of Functional Programming was a book that I studied extensively in grad school back in the late 80’s, and it’s good to see that these out of print books are available again.
Daily Archives: 7/23/2004
Baseball pictures…
After penning the article below, I was looking for a picture of the elusive Walter Carlisle (didn’t succeed), but I did find a nice page at the Library of Congress Website that has some nice pictures that you can download. Digging around more, you can find their collection of 2100 early baseball cards. I’m listing this under public domain resources, but you should be careful when downloading these to research and obey any license restrictions that are placed on these images. Enjoy!
Baseball Trivia
I was tearing off sheets for my daily calendar which lists achivements in baseball, when I encountered the following:
July 19, 1911 Walter Carlisle makes an unassisted triple play for Vernon of the Pacific Coast League. What’s so unusual about that? Carlisle is playing center field at the time.
Blink blink. Here’s some additional information. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the major leagues, so you won’t find it on Baseball Almanac’s page of unassisted triple plays.
Carlisle also apparently played for the 1908 Red Sox, but recorded only 10 AB with 1 hit, 1 walk for a career average of 0.100 in the major leagues.