Our Sidewalk Sale begins at 10 a.m. Saturday

This is a video from 2011 about our annual Sidewalk Sale. If you haven't been to our Saturday of spectacular savings, this will give you an idea of what it's like. If you have been, this will remind you how much fun it is -- as if you needed to be reminded. Anyway, our 2014 Sidewalk Sale is Saturday, November 15, the first annual Florida Bookstore Day! (That's tomorrow!) All our books on the tables outside will be 50 cents each. Books inside the store will be on sale, too. Come see us and join the fun.

The price of the book changes instantly

During our Fall Sale, which begins on Saturday, November 15, everything in the store is on sale. We're marking Florida Bookstore Day with our annual Sidewalk Sale. Everything on the tables outside the store will be priced at 50 cents each. No minimum. No maximum. You chose the books you want. Bring a wheelbarrow or a small truck if you want to, and take away these amazing bargains. Inside, you'll find more astounding book deals. All books priced under $100 will be 40% off. All books priced at more than $100 will be 20% off. Maps and prints also will be 20% off. The Fall Sale continues on until the end of the month, so if you don't make it on Saturday, you can still take advantage of the instant change in prices until November 29. We look forward to seeing you. '

We've got to get rid of these stacks of books

We're being overrun with books. We have them on the shelves. We have the on the desks. We have them on the floor. We have them out in the van. On Saturday, November 15, we'll have thousands of them on tables under tents in front of the store. All of the books outside will be 50 cents each. That's our annual Sidewalk Sale. What a way to celebrate Florida Bookstore Day! But wait! There's more! Michael is putting all the books, map, and prints inside the store on sale, too. Watch the video to find out the details. Our Fall Sale runs through November 29.

Grantland Rice wrote elegant sports prose

It is the birthday of legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880), who contributed significantly to sports journalism and dominated it during the Roaring Twenties with elegant prose and thoughtful poetry. He was the first to call the 1924 Notre Dame backfield the Four Horsemen and the first to broadcast a World Series on the radio.

Rice interviewed all the major sports figures of the era and made heroes of many of them, including Jack Dempsey, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, Knute Rockne, Babe Ruth, and Babe Zaharias. His writing raised sports events to a new mythical level, comparing the contests to ancient quests of strength and courage.

Of the 1924 Notre Dame-Army game he wrote, "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden."