@LukeEpplin

Author of MOSES AND THE DOCTOR (USA Today bestseller) and OUR TEAM (on Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller) Contact: [email protected]

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Now that "Moses and the Doctor" is available everywhere books are sold, here's how you can get a signed copy: Order through Astoria Bookshop (link below), or send me a request for a signed bookplate (my email is in my bio). I'll mail you one free. It's that simple.
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Brazil continues to evade the mistakes that this country blunders into with glee.
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The teacher at my daughter's music class handed out Cheez-Its for Halloween, and it blew her frickin' mind. Imagine tasting a Cheez-It for the first time....
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One last time: I wrote a story about how I came to NYC from the rural Midwest and how I find myself still here a quarter century later: substack.com/home/post/p-221…
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This whole Cheesecake Factory rhetoric is yet another example of how so-called “wokeness” has shifted from the left to the right.
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One party’s persistent stance against universal healthcare is baffling to me.
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Trump: "We have the best healthcare plans in the world. Now it doesn't cover everybody, but it covers a lot of people."
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Sunday morning music class.
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I watched the Norm Macdonald and Maria Bamford documentaries this weekend and they're both wonderful in separate and interesting ways. At this point I'd be happy for Judd Apatow to dedicate himself solely to documentaries on offbeat comedians.
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For the evening crowd, I wrote about how I came to NYC and the distance I now feel from that person.
Luke Epplin@LukeEpplinOct 24
I finally wrote about coming to New York City a quarter century ago with no plans, nowhere to stay, and no leads. This is a personal one for me. I think that I found what I was looking for all those years ago, but as time goes by, I'm less and less sure. Link below.
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I finally wrote about coming to New York City a quarter century ago with no plans, nowhere to stay, and no leads. This is a personal one for me. I think that I found what I was looking for all those years ago, but as time goes by, I'm less and less sure. Link below.
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Read and subscribe here: substack.com/home/post/p-221…
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My wife is giving presentations in Madrid and I'm at home wondering if the spot on my jeans is slime, foam, or Play-Doh.
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Folks, by now you don't me to tell you that this ain't no way to run a railroad....
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The U.S. is expected to remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian products in a bid to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections wsj.com/politics/policy/trum… via @WSJ

Exclusive | Trump Expected to Remove Some Tariffs on Canada in Bid to Help Susan Collins

The move, which could come as soon as Friday, would remove tariffs on some agricultural and forestry goods but could raise levies on other products.

wsj.com
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Let's do one more: Fifty years ago today, Julius Erving and Moses Malone faced each other for the first time in the NBA. It was an inauspicious game for the two, a reflection of the unsettledness of both figures in the transition from the ABA. From "Moses and the Doctor":
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The other interesting thing about this game is that Dr. J and Moses Malone would face each other just four days later in Houston, after Malone got traded there. Both had markedly better performances. It was the first time that they seemed acclimated to the NBA.
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Luke Epplin@LukeEpplinOct 22
Fifty years ago today, Dr. J played his first game in the NBA. It was a wild buildup--his sudden move to Philly, the anticipation of finally seeing this mythic ABA figure in the NBA. Ominously, the 76ers lost. Here's what I wrote about it in "Moses and the Doctor":
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Fifty years ago today, Dr. J played his first game in the NBA. It was a wild buildup--his sudden move to Philly, the anticipation of finally seeing this mythic ABA figure in the NBA. Ominously, the 76ers lost. Here's what I wrote about it in "Moses and the Doctor":
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By the way, if, like me, you love watching highlight reels of the NBA in the 70s and 80s, you've probably seen Steve Solms. He was a sidelines fixture at 76ers game, a curly, balding redhead who reacted to Erving dunks like he'd seen the Pope. Unfortunately, he passed years ago.
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George Karl@CoachKarl22Oct 22
I’m glad the NBA is celebrating the ABA’s. But it’s BS to recognize our league while many former ABA players struggle and their stats remain excluded from NBA records! Honor the players. Honor the history. Honor the numbers. Honor the Legacy! NBA, do the right thing!!
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Watched the new Norm Macdonald documentary last night and was very moved by it. I met Norm once, right before he went out to do his last set on David Letterman's show, when he broke down and cried at the end.
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I was next to him and said "Right?" Norm snapped out of it and turned to me. He wasn't hostile. He just stared at me, a half-smile on his face. He didn't say a word. I mean, he stared for what like minutes, just holding eye contact. Finally, I kind of shuffled away.
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Anyway, that's the extent of it. At the time, I thought that he was being a bit rude or something. I don't know. But then he went out and did this emotional set, so he had to have been in a zone that he didn't want penetrated. And then we found out about his cancer.....
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