You know what it's called.
This form of cribbage is generally frowned upon in public, competitive play. In private, however, it may be a different story. The Superbowl. The World Series. The Stanley Cup Playoffs.
And Strip Cribbage.
Category Archives: Crib Notes
Connors’ “Fire Season” Wins Book Award
Last week, Minnesota author Phil Connors won the National Outdoor Book Award for his recent title Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. Several months ago, I attended a reading from Connors at Magers & Quinn, my favorite Twin City bookstore, and was able to ask him a bit about cribbage at 10,000+ feet. The original blog is posted below.
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Last Wednesday, Connors read from his just-released book Fire Season: Field Notes From A Wilderness Lookout, at the inestimable Magers & Quinn bookstore in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. Fire Season recounts the experience of Connors’ beloved job, that of a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, one of North America’s landscapes most prone to fire, to flame, to spark, kindle and inferno. After several years as an editor at the Wall Street Journal, Connors abandoned the miasma of New York life for the (relative) solitude of the southwest. I haven’t read the book–yet–but I enjoyed Connors’ contribution to State by State, writing of our mutual home state of Minnesota, and had read a few excerpts of his work in other publications. Why do I think we’d be friends?
Dude plays cribbage. Continue reading
Filed under Boards, Crib Notes, Cribbage, Cribbage 'Round the World, Interviews
Joe Mauer Does Not Play Cribbage
But that didn’t stop him from sending me a letter. Earlier this year, I initiated the Cribbageland Open Letter Campaign, in which I mailed several letters to several athletes, all wondering if they’d be interested in speaking with me about a little 15-2. There are 52 cards in a deck, 52 weeks in a year. You see the strategy. Unfortunately, as my time spent working grew and my time spent sleeping shrank, I abandoned the campaign for some undisclosed future date. Maybe it’s time to fire it up again. After all, Mauer isn’t the first to respond–just the first without a form letter. Continue reading
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