Book Review: 60’6″

May 4, 2012 by James Forr · Leave a Comment

60’6″: Balls, Strikes, and Baseball Mortality, the debut novel from former college and semipro pitcher Mike Arsenault, is a portrait of a young man clinging to an impossible dream and wondering what lies beyond. Arsenault uses baseball as his backdrop, but his story transcends the […]

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Donâ€™t Leave Home Without It!

June 2, 2010 by Jon Daly · 1 Comment

Bruce Markusen recently wrote about George Scott. The Boomer, as he was sometimes called, battled with the scale as a player. One of his managers said that he went sight-seeing in a supermarket. He was a key member of the â€œImpossible Dreamâ€ Red Sox of 1967. Folks of a certain age may remember that â€œThe […]

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