Battle Heats Up Between SF, KC Librarians

The war of words is heating up between two public libraries 1,500 miles apart from each other, where librarians are doing anything they can to help their hometown baseball team to win the World Series crown.Sounding a bit Shakespearean, Liesl Christman, the Twitter czar for the Kansas City Public Library, tweeted on Wednesday morning, hours after the San Francisco Giants crushed the Royals in Game 1 on Tuesday, 7-1: "Tis but a flesh wound - @Royals will rally! Tonight, #LetsThrowFire!" SF, KC Stadiums to Accept Apple Pay During World Series If the Giants win it all, Christman promised Wednesday her library will buy and shelve San Rafael author Dan Fost's book, "The Giants Baseball Experience: A Year-by-Year Chronicle from New York to San Francisco."If the Royals win, Christman hopes the San Francisco Public Library will be forced to stock George Brett's "From Here to Cooperstown" about the Royals on its shelves. "Polite" Librarians Talk World Series Smack Michelle Jeffers, the digital guru at the library in San Francisco, said she'd consider the request, but from what's she's heard, that book is out of print."Even better!" Jeffers...