Maybe in the age of Twitter and Instagram, blogs with actual words have died. Somehow or other, regretfully, we've outlasted many of them. We started our webpage in 2008 and back then we had a lot of company. We wanted to call attention one last time to an interesting Facebook page dedicated to vintage crime paperbacks published in Brazil by Edições de Ouro and Editora Tecnoprint.

Wade Miller-who was really Bob Wade and Bill Miller acting as one-started his/their career on a good note with this one. Overall, Deadly Weapon is well written, well paced, and well characterized (if a bit saccharine in the romantic subplot). He even uses his car to ram another auto and its occupants over a cliff. Some of the action is centered around a burlesque theatre and its headlining peeler Shasta Lynn, but the deadly weapon isn't a femme fatale, as implied by the art, but Walter James himself. It's about an Atlanta detective who drives to San Diego to avenge the death of his partner, and as befits such a concept, features excellent Sam Spade-like repartee between main character Walter James and a local cop named Austin Clapp. The brush behind this cover for Wade Miller's 1946 debut thriller Deadly Weapon was paperback vet Bob Abbett, and it's one of his better pieces in a portfolio filled with top efforts. Now you have to pay the uncover charge or get out.

The Gaels go back on the road tomorrow playing at UC Davis at 2 PM at Bobbins Stadium.You paid the cover charge to get in. Also putting in a strong relief effort was senior Alex Jensen who threw two scoreless innings. The ninth inning was shut down by junior Anthony Selden who pitched a 1-2-3 ninth striking out one recording his first save of the season. Back to back highlight reel catches by Mulligan and junior center fielder Cory Miller ended the Cardinal threat. The Cardinal made it interesting in the later innings however, repeatedly putting men in scoring position, the biggest threat coming in the bottom of the eighth inning when Stanford had runners on second and third with only one out. That all changed in the top of the sixth inning when Wells hit a clutch two out double down the right field line scoring senior right fielder Kenny Fuglerud and sophomore catcher Ryan Mulligan.

The story early in the game was the Gaels inability to get that clutch two out hit, as Saint Mary's twice left the bases loaded unable to bring a run in. The lone blemish on the day was a homerun given up to junior catcher Jason Castro in the bottom of the second. The Gaels saw yet another solid outing from its starting pitching as sophomore Scott Schneider (1-0) goes six strong, scattering five hits, surrendering one run, a walk, while striking out four. Palo Alto, CA - In a game featuring strong pitching it was, sophomore second baseman Randy Wells two run double in the sixth that makes the difference, as Saint Mary's(2-1) wins 4-2 over host Stanford (2-2) at the Sunken Diamond.

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