Buk Trivia... Answerer becomes next Questioner
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mjp
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Okay, I can see no one is going to get this, so I'll spill the beans.
Back in the 40's Bukowski played for a AAA team called the Reno Silver Sox. It was his idea to print a program to sell to their 200 fans at each game, because the team was rarely paid.
"We hawk these for a dime a piece," he was rumored to have said, "If we can get enough of these chumps to bite, we make enough change to keep us drunk up until - and if we're lucky, through - the next game."
His team mates enthusiastically embraced the idea, and the fans seemed to enjoy the program, though some said it seemed, "dull and uninspired," so Bukowski added some drawings. This is the first drawing to appear, taken from the Silver Sox Gazette, July 17, 1944.
You never see these on the market, they are kind of like the Write magazine of AAA baseball programs. I'm not surprised that cirerita has a copy though.
Back in the 40's Bukowski played for a AAA team called the Reno Silver Sox. It was his idea to print a program to sell to their 200 fans at each game, because the team was rarely paid.
"We hawk these for a dime a piece," he was rumored to have said, "If we can get enough of these chumps to bite, we make enough change to keep us drunk up until - and if we're lucky, through - the next game."
His team mates enthusiastically embraced the idea, and the fans seemed to enjoy the program, though some said it seemed, "dull and uninspired," so Bukowski added some drawings. This is the first drawing to appear, taken from the Silver Sox Gazette, July 17, 1944.
You never see these on the market, they are kind of like the Write magazine of AAA baseball programs. I'm not surprised that cirerita has a copy though.
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I gotta call bullshit on this one....
D
dolittle2x
That's a GREAT story...
I just love this man more and more
(holed up in my back bedroom,
perfect Sunday,
with Run With The Hunted....
just reading the poetry-> wish they cited where each was from)
I just love this man more and more
(holed up in my back bedroom,
perfect Sunday,
with Run With The Hunted....
just reading the poetry-> wish they cited where each was from)
D
dolittle2x
Bullshit,...
I'm a decent card player,
except the bluffing part...lol
Show your hand mjp
I'm a decent card player,
except the bluffing part...lol
Show your hand mjp
mjp
Founding member
Are you insinuating that this copy of the Silver Sox Gazette that I have here, dated July 17, 1944 and containing several Bukowski drawings, as well as numerous photos of him in his Silver Sox uniform is fake?!
How dare you!
I'll have you know that I purchased it on eBay, and the seller assured me he got it from a reliable source at a flea market in Houston.
How dare you!
I'll have you know that I purchased it on eBay, and the seller assured me he got it from a reliable source at a flea market in Houston.
mjp is RIGHT!
Amongst really informed fans it's quite known, that during his so called 10-year-drunk, Bukowski had a second career running, in professional baseball. After his first attempts to hide this fact and claiming he "can't quite remember these years", he even started working on a novel named 'The Pitcher' in 1972. (see timeline)
cirerita:
I have no right to ask a new quest: Your naming of the date made it easy to quess through Dorbin, that it's most likely to be in 'Matrix'.
So, if you're not fed up with kicking our asses by asking strange things (and thus adding to our mediocre knowledge) - GO ON, babe!
Amongst really informed fans it's quite known, that during his so called 10-year-drunk, Bukowski had a second career running, in professional baseball. After his first attempts to hide this fact and claiming he "can't quite remember these years", he even started working on a novel named 'The Pitcher' in 1972. (see timeline)
cirerita:
I have no right to ask a new quest: Your naming of the date made it easy to quess through Dorbin, that it's most likely to be in 'Matrix'.
So, if you're not fed up with kicking our asses by asking strange things (and thus adding to our mediocre knowledge) - GO ON, babe!
Bukowski says this about the 9/14/72 reading at City Lights book store in San Fransisco: "I get half the god damned take and at ? bucks a head maybe I can afford a cold beer when I get back"....what was the admission price? how many people attended? and what was Buk's final take?
o'ya' christ its been so long that I forgot all about it, and I don't even remember the answer. My computer is fucked right now and I'm on my girlfreinds at her house, I know that it is in one of the books of letters. when I get back home I'll look it up and post tomorrow, then I'll pass this on to someone else. in all fairness (to me) his questions are like going out to recess, mine was more like homework. damn, I never was very good at games :o
Living on luck, page 166.
still haven't made it home, but I'm sure you must be right. what was it? 2 bucks a head? 400 people attended? and buk got $600? or something like that. what? (must of had some expences)... anyway lets get this show back on the road. go Ponder go. hope you have a more interesting question than mine.....