Author Archives: Austin Gisriel

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About Austin Gisriel

You know the guy that records a baseball game from the West Coast in July and doesn't watch it until January just to see baseball in the winter? That's me. I'm a writer always in search of a good story, baseball or otherwise.

World War II Became More Than Just “A Thing”

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

World War II was only 12 years in the past when I was born. For me, “the war” was this thing. Clearly, it was the focal point of my parents’ lives and of the lives of all their friends, but … Continue reading →

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The Secret of Their Midnight Tears

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Many of you know that I have been working on a coming of age novel set during World War II, and I am happy to announce that The Secret of Their Midnight Tears is now available in all formats. The … Continue reading →

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Five Laws We Will Have When I Am Emperor

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

I have always believed that the degree to which any people are civilized is in direct, inverse proportion to the number of laws it has. Simply put, good people don’t really need many laws to tell them how to behave. … Continue reading →

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I Believe in Miracles and Scooter Gennett

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Scooter Gennett reminded us again last night (that is on June 6th) why baseball is the greatest game in the world, when he became only the 17th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a single … Continue reading →

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The Life of Riley

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Our granddaughter, Riley, celebrates her 5 month birthday tomorrow, and her growth is astounding. In fact, she’s becoming so dexterous that I bought her her first sleeve of little baseballs and I’d like to see her on a throwing program … Continue reading →

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Brooks, Still the Magician

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

This is a weird day for me, and probably many other similar-aged people, boys especially, who grew up in Baltimore in the 1960s and 70s. My childhood hero, Brooks Robinson, turns 80 today. 80! I knew that one day Brooks … Continue reading →

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Baseball Stories

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

I recently re-read a book of three short stories that I wrote a few years ago, something that I don’t normally do. As I was creating a new ad campaign on Amazon for these old stories, I wanted to re-familiarize … Continue reading →

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Everything’s Better in Black and White

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Rick and Virginia were missing. As there had been no ransom demand, kidnapping had been ruled out. Murder and suicide had seemed unlikely based on their apartment in which nothing was disturbed, and from which nothing had been taken. The … Continue reading →

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My Grumpy Predictions for the 2017 MLB Season

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Each year I become less enamored of making predictions for the upcoming baseball season, which is no doubt obvious considering that I’m only getting around to them now, three days after the season has started. This is probably because each … Continue reading →

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Why I Don’t Fret Climate Change

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

The spate of warm weather we enjoyed back in February in the Winchester area was covered in a Winchester Star front page story, which noted that “since record keeping began in 1880 . . . 2016 is the third year … Continue reading →

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