What do Alan Alda and Sammy Baugh have in common?

I'm always searching for something to read. A book ready at hand helps me to keep my mind in place. I don't know how non-readers keep their sanity. Maybe they go out and do things. I'm not much for doing things.

There are a lot of books in the world, but somehow I am at a loss between volumes as to what to read next. I even got intellectual recently and read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. A lot of talk about farming while in between a lady goes crazy on drugs after a torrid love affair and throws herself in front a train. 800 plus pages of all that. I hope I didn't spoil it for you.

In a desperate hunt for the next read, I went down some rabbit holes and somehow came across a little tome titled MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. 

Everyone is most likely familiar with the series, which starred Alan Alda in the role of Hawkeye Pierce, and some might even have seen the movie.

The book was written by Richard Hooker and published in 1968. It was based on his experience as a surgeon in the Korean War.

There I am, reading along, and one of the characters in the book says, "Way to throw! Who ever heard of Sammy Baugh?".

That's all that was said about our local claim-to-fame, but it was a shot out of the blue to see it in print. 

Look at us, we're famous! In a roundabout way.

So, Alda and Baugh have a connection, even if it's in a six degrees of separation type of way. They got it in two.