[Photo Credit: Summer Sleep, By Irving Penn, 1949]

I like sweets but I crave salad.

[Photo Credit: Chef-ru]

Robert Creamer died yesterday. He was one of the old school Sports Illustrated writers. Later, he was an editor at the magazine, as well as the author of major biographies on Babe Ruth and Casey Stengel. Creamer was also featured in Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary.

Read this piece on Creamer by Jack McCallum. (The Times doesn’t have an obit posted yet.)

Just last week, I ran across a letter Creamer once wrote to the New York Times concerning John Lardner:

Admirers of fine writing about sports consider John Lardner to be at least the equal and possibly the superior of such masters of the craft as Red Smith and W. C. Heinz. If he had lived longer, there is little doubt that he would have produced more excellent work, but what John Lardner achieved was certainly what his vast talent promised.

Amen, to that.

Dig this 2002 article by David Margolick on a gang of baseball writers–including Lawrence Ritter, Ray Robinson and Creamer–that got together every month to schmooze.

Here’s a sampling of Creamer’s work from SI:

On Ty Cobb;  Yogi; Mickey Mantle; Roger Maris; Al Lopez; Avery Brundage; the greatest Yankee team ever;  autograph hounds; and the unbarnacled truth.

Check out the big excerpt SI ran from his Ruth biography. And while we’re at it, how about another?

Finally, here is a terrific 1964 profile on Vin Scully, “The Transistor Kid.”

Rest in Peace.

[Photo Credit: Georgia Fowler]

R. Crumb by Drew Friedman.

Via Laughing Squid, dig this sampling from Drew Friedman’s Legends of Comics Portraits.

More summertime goodness from Nicole Franzen: maple and lime roasted peaches.

Keep it together…

[Photo Credit: Ralph Gibson]

Nicole Franzen gives us peach blueberry cobbler. Oh, hell yes.

Collage by Jens Ullrich.

I like my pockets fat not flat.

[Photo Via: The Adults]

So, do you get a shake with your burger and fries or is that gilding the lily?

[“The American Way,” By Terry Border at his most cool site Bent Objects]

[Photo Credit: fsquared]

“Light Breakfast,” By David Sykes

All Hail The Beat | Nelson George from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

Couple things for you music nerds.

From Michael Sragow, here’s Robert Towne on The 39 Steps:

“I think it’s interesting,” he said, “Because most ‘pure’ movie thrillers, especially when you think of Hitchcock, are either fantasies fulfilled or anxieties purged. ‘The 39 Steps’ is one of the few, if not the only one, that does both at the same time. He puts you into this paranoid fantasy of being accused of murder and being shackled to a beautiful girl—of escaping from all kinds of harm, and at the same time trying to save your country, really. A Hitchcock film like ‘Psycho’ is strictly an anxiety purge. ‘The 39 Steps’ gives you that and the fantasy fulfilled. It’s kind of a neat trick, really.”

[Photo Credit: colinquinn]

[Photo Credit: Sam Coldy]

Film Comment. Peter and Orson talk “movies.”

Clip via Black Book.

I’m a cold Italian Pizza/I could use a lemon squeezer.

[Photo Credit: My Little Foodies]

I just don’t have that much jam…

[Photo Via: Kitty en classe]

Some Covers…