What were GAEs hobbies (outside of literature)?
Effinger was a sports fan who particularly loved baseball. His short story collection, IDLE PLEASURES, was the only SF collection I have heard of that was devoted solely to SF sports stories. His sports allegiances included the Yale Bulldogs, the Cleveland Indians and the New York Knicks. When he finally received a Hugo Award, in Boston in 1989 (after being repeatedly nominated for the Hugo or Nebula and always losing) he quoted Lou Gehrig’s famous farewell line: “Today I am the luckiest man in the world.” Effinger liked to collect Depression glass (much of which was lost in a disastrous apartment fire in 1986) and he contributed to “Depression Glass Daze,” a Depression glass trade paper. (The heroine of the novel HEROICS is a Depression glass collector.) He read plenty of SF and mysteries, but his literary references in his stories also mention classic authors such as Jane Austen, beatnik writers such as Jack Kerouac and pulp heroes. He was seriously interested in food: He wrote a det
