Scooter Chronicles

On Father’s Day I read the famed novella “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway in it’s entirety.

The story is about Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman that heads out to the waters, farther then normal, to try and catch something after 84 days of nothing. Using very old methods, the “old man” hooks into an enormous marlin, but even he doesn’t realize how big it is until later. His fight seems to first end in triumph, but it soon turns to what the old man wishes was just a dream.

When I received my copy of this book (thank you BookMooch), I was surprised to...

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On Saturday evening I finished reading the historical baseball novel “The Veracruz Blues” by Mark Winegardner.

Thanks to Publishers Weekly and Amazon.Com, here is a brief synopsis:

Using real names and events, Winegardner playfully recounts how in 1946 one quixotic man nearly established a third, fully integrated major baseball league in Mexico. In 1994, the year without a World Series, aging baseball reporter Frank Bullinger Jr. sets out to write about “The Season of Gold” of 1946. Although Bullinger shapes the story, he frequently steps aside for chapters told...

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