Tuesday Sniping: Sept 27, 2011!!!!!!11

"Swing...and LOOOOOOOOONG drive...watch that baby...OUTTAHERE...HOMERUN...MICHAEL JACK SCHMIDT!"

Happy Birthday to the greatest third baseman of all, Mistah Mike Schmidt.

Ah, September 27. Always a good day in the lives of Philadelphia Phillies fans of the 1970s and ’80s. Not just for Schmidt’s birthday, but for the team as a whole, which was usually clinching a division title around this time, in Chicago, in Montreal, in some other classic National League East city, wherever.

Speaking of Phila-la-la, no one who ever opened a racing page in that city will ever forget the name Craig Donnelly (from whom we freely steal the construction “PennNat” — and what about his terse, frequent description of a horse as being “capable but erratic”…just like most of the Boys In the Backroom!).

At any rate, here is a fantastic story of Mr. Donnelly’s transition from horserace picker to racehorse picker/owner/breeder:

Overcoming grief was no sure bet for horse racing’s Craig Donnelly

But it’s a now world, and so here’s what we figured out for today, Sept. 27, 2011. Of course, we must lead off with the Keystone Racetrack…

Keystone
Race 5: #2 Tale of the Fox
Race 7: #9 Icelus
Bonkers Box (Race 5): #2 Tale of the Fox – #1A What a Smile

Finger
Race 6: #6 Its Goodtobeking
Race 9: #10 Goodbyeandgoodluck
Bonkers Box (Race 6): #6 Its Goodtobeking – #4 Stylish Tiger

Fort Erie
Race 2: #9 Lover Boy
Race 4: #2 Talk About It
Race 8: #1 He’sadreamcometrue
Bonkers Box N/A

Thank you. Best wishes. Join us again tomorrow for the first “First Post” post of the week.