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Important issue.

Cancer Votes Massachusetts was out last week at the U.S. Senate candidate debate in Springfield, MA, the third of four scheduled debates between Sen. Scott Brown (R) and Elizabeth Warren (D).

Cancer Votes volunteers and staff spent time talking with supporters from both campaigns about why cancer needs to be a national priority, and six volunteers and staff were able to attend the sold-out debate.

And Cancer Votes volunteer Pat Spain from North Andover gave several interviews to reporters, including one with NPR!

According to Cancer Votes staffer Patricia Mallios, volunteers and staff were able to meet a lot of people and many of them kept their stickers on during the debate and were interested in hearing about Cancer Votes.

Photos: Cancer Votes volunteers Ellen Croibier, Peter Levine, Pat Spain, Anna Nguyen, Nora Wallace and staff Patricia Mallios, Erica Concors and Whitney Thomas and supporters of both candidates.

Ted loved listening to the radio     

 An exclusive excerpt of Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:  Growing up, on Saturday afternoons during football season, Ted [Williams] liked to get home in time to listen to the USC games on radio. He loved Irvine “Cotton” Warburton, a San Diego boy who was the team’s All America quarterback in 1933. “On Saturday night we’d listen to Benny Goodman,” Ted recalled. “Swing bands were the thing then. I still prefer swing to anything else.” His favorite radio program was “Gang Busters,” which, in collaboration with J. Edgar Hoover, dramatized closed FBI cases. Originally launched in 1935 and called “G-men,” the show featured dramatic sound effects of screeching tires, police sirens and tommy-guns.

(PHOTO: Ted Williams passing a football at the Navy Pre-Flight School, 1943. North Carolina Collection, UNC at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library.)

Carl Hiaasen and John Grisham on a #bea14 and #bookcon panel. Fun stuff.

#BEA14 #Editors' #Buzz panel: Seven titles to add to your reading wish list. It was all elbows at the ARC tables.

Ted Williams: “I don’t guess what they throw.” 

An exclusive excerpt from “The Kid” by Ben Bradlee, Jr.:  Williams pioneered the use of a lighter bat—once considered heresy for sluggers—arguing that bat speed, not heft, was the key to power. His entire career, Ted studied pitchers intently for their tendencies, and quizzed hitters about what a pitcher threw to him in what situation. “Ted always said: ‘I don’t guess what they throw. I figure what they’re going to throw,’” says Tom Wright, a backup outfielder and pinch hitter for the Sox from 1948-1951.

(PHOTO: Ted Williams with the Minneapolis Millers, 1938. National Baseball Hall of Fame Library.)

Well look what they got at the Harvard Business School. It still works. Who knew?

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Arizona and Florida team Spring Training sites

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." - Pablo Neruda

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That's a lot of reading...

NBA Fact: There were over 500 submissions in the category of nonfiction for the National Book Award, and the committee who decides the winner has to read all of them.

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Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Several snowy egrets (like this one in Newburyport) were sighted in Chatham. (Laurie Swope/File)

Jim with his sisters Casy and Sue. That's great-grandpap in the back. Miss ya, Dad.