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Murder in Greenwich: Weeks meets Fuhrman at the train station. You see the reflection of a bus in the train windows. Fuhrman calls Weeks, "partner." Weeks says, "As long as my Yankee's are two games up, I'm happy." We're talking baseball, and a playoff game at that. We're talking Edgar Allan Poe, too. The rest of The If you wish to mix murder with these baseball giants you can do it with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the birthday of Pete Rose; April 14. Lincoln was morally wounded on April 14, 1865. He died the next morning. Kelly McG Al Kaline was a Baseball Hall of Fame right-fielder from Baltimore who played his entire Major League career with the Detroit Tigers. He was known as one of the best right-fielders and overall players to ever take the field. His fellow players sometimes called him by his famous number, "Six." Stan Musial was the St. Louis Cardinal's number 6. On a scorecard, defensive positions are indicated by the numbers 1-9. Right field is 9. Shortstop is 6 (an upside down 9. The House on Carroll Street is set in 1951, two years before the Tigers signed Kaline straight out of high school to play for the Major League club. The "shortstop" joke wasn't necessarily intended as a reference to a "future" All-Star by using a clever way to evoke his number with plausible deniability but if you know his number you know his name. If you know his name and number you can play a "name-that-Tiger" game with his number and the scorecard number for the shortstop. It might also be useful to know in the context of The House on Carroll Street and Fuhrman's role as an LAPD cop, that Shortstop is the name of a cop bar in Los Angeles. Al Kaline's 22 seasons with the Tigers overlapped Stan Musial's 22 seasons with the Cardinals. Mark Fuhrman wrote one 6 on top of another 6 in his LAPD badge number attached to his notes in his book. --Jasper |
House on Carroll Street's
partners has more to it than you would
think unless you were a baseball trivia wiz. The "4 for
4" box score reading of Duke Snider's batting performance, for
instance, can also be a 4 + 4 reference to his field position (8).
His name is synonymous with his number (4). He clobbered his way
into the Hall of fame with his bat. You can play another game with
another future Hall of Famer, Al Kaline
of the Detroit Tigers', the location
of Tiger Stadium and Tiger
baseball fan Jeff Daniels (the stadium was across the
street from a lumber yard on Trumbull St. and the corner of Michigan
Ave. and Cochran St.). You need to know all of that to get the most
out of the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial vs. the Brooklyn Dodgers'
illis is Emily Crain. Jeff Daniels is FBI Special Agent Mike Cochran. Kenneth Welsh is his partner Joe Hackett.