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Novel “Saving Babe Ruth” to be Honored at Ben Franklin Book Awards Ceremony

Novel “Saving Babe Ruth” to be Honored at Ben Franklin Book Awards Ceremony

by admin | Mar 23, 2015 | Saving Babe Ruth, Uncategorized

I’m pleased to announce that Saving Babe Ruth has been named as a finalist in two categories of the annual Benjamin Franklin Awards competition for excellence in publishing. The two categories are: “Popular Fiction” and the “Ben Fisher Award for Best First Book:...
Jackie Robinson West:  A Little League Baseball Team Teaches Life Lessons to All

Jackie Robinson West: A Little League Baseball Team Teaches Life Lessons to All

by admin | Feb 12, 2015 | Little League

We all wanted to believe in the Little League team called Jackie Robinson West. We wanted to believe they were one of those uplifting underdog stories that have come to define us as Americans. That’s the image we were sold all summer long during the televised Little...
An Afternoon with John Thorn, Official Historian for Major League Baseball

An Afternoon with John Thorn, Official Historian for Major League Baseball

by admin | Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized

Thanks to the Albany (New York) Institute of  History and Art, this city is the place to be if you have an interest in baseball. The Institute’s “Triple Play” exhibit on baseball runs through July. It’s not only the exhibit (containing items...
Novel “Saving Babe Ruth” Will Triumph Over Threat From Nationally Known Sports Agent and High School Principal, J.R. Rickert

Novel “Saving Babe Ruth” Will Triumph Over Threat From Nationally Known Sports Agent and High School Principal, J.R. Rickert

by admin | Oct 29, 2014 | Education, Saving Babe Ruth

Saving Babe Ruth is protected free speech.  I wrote the novel Saving Babe Ruth while residing in a nice Upstate New York town called Niskayuna. I graduated from its high school in the 1970s and so did my wife; my son graduated from there two years ago. All three of us...
Like a baseball, we are all held together by our stitches

Like a baseball, we are all held together by our stitches

by admin | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized

Our Stitches What follows is a copy of the speech I gave to the New Jersey State Championship Banquet in Berkeley, New Jersey the other week: “I would like to thank Bob Everett, Berkeley Little League, and Little League International for allowing me to speak to...
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