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- Ambitious Enterprises Ally Peltier is an excellent editor/consultant for your writers looking for professional guidance.
- Baseball Panoramic Rob Noel’s great site takes you on virtual tours of MLB and historic ballparks
- David Stinson's author blog Please visit my buddy and fellow author David Stinson’s site. He has a real eye for baseball’s past; in fact, he sees it!
- Deadball Baseball Based on David Stinson’s novel, Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel
- History: Preserved This is a wonderful blog that often covers the home front during World War II, especially the recipes that were used to compensate for rationing. i had the privilege of meeting the author, Sarah Lee, at the 2017 WIlliamsport World War II Weekend.
- Off the Beaten Basepaths & other videos OTBB takes you to baseball treasures that are little known, underappreciated, or simply off the beaten basepaths! Subscribe now through Youtube so you don’t miss an episode.
- Places We Have Played Album My non-genetic twin, Al Smith, and I like to play in as many interesting ballparks, big and small, as we can find. Here’s our “collection.”
- Sarah Sundin Sarah is a World War II romance novelist who gets her history correct! Lots of good information on her blog.
- Seamheads Best baseball blog on the ‘Net!
- Summer Game Books The website of my publisher. (Hey, it felt good to write that!)
- The Official Webpage for Boots Poffenberger: Hurler, Hero, Hell-Raiser Visit the Summer Game Books page for my biography of Boots Poffenberger. Order from there and view the book trailer (to be posted soon!)
- Winchester Book Gallery A wonderful independent book store that is a fun place to shop in the Old Town Mall in Winchester. Christine and her staff are just plain nice people!
- Your Little Windmill My younger daughter, Sarah, has started a blog about her journey through love and Life. Well-written and insightful, and I’m saying that as a writer and not as her dad.
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Robert E. Lee, Reconciliation, and Race. And Grandmothers
I just finished reading the fourth and final volume of Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize winning (1935) biography R. E. Lee. Very well written, and extremely well researched, I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in General Lee’s … Continue reading
Coming Up
Happy New Year! I hope 2020 is off to a rousing start for everyone. There are a couple of events, one immediate, and one in April, that you should mark on your calendars, both of which are related to World … Continue reading
Thanksgiving, 1945
I’ll Remember You All is now available from Amazon in paperback and for e-readers. I have ordered copies as well, so if you are local, feel free to get a copy directly from me, inscribed, of course! (Don’t forget Christmas … Continue reading
What is the Saddest Song?
Living life to the fullest isn’t just about maximizing the happiness in it, it is also about embracing the sadness and the pain. I use the word embrace very deliberately. After all, one can’t know happiness without knowing its opposite … Continue reading
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Tagged Bing Crosby, country music, Country on PBS, Hank Williams, Linda Rondstadt, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, sad songs
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Winchester’s Own, Spottswood Poles
Spottswood Poles was one of the greatest Negro League players, and he was born just a few miles from where I write this, in Winchester, Virginia. Please enjoy the twelth installment of Off the Beaten Basepaths:
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The Bedford Boys Tribute Center
It is really Green’s Drug Store, and not Omaha Beach that is the epicenter of the Bedford Boys story. Green’s was not just the main hang-out in town, which meant that every one of the Bedford Boys had been there … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged Bedford boys, Bedford Boys Tribute Center, D-Day, Green's Drugstore, Ken and Linda Parker
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D-Day Arrives in Marsh Point
Seventy-five years ago tomorrow morning, Americans up and down the East Coast awoke–or were awakened by–the news that the Allies had begun the invasion of Fortress Europe by landing troops on the beaches of Normandy. (Of course, folks on the … Continue reading
Anyone Remember Snider’s Catsup?
As regular readers of this blog know, I enjoy looking through old magazines to see what folks were interested in during any given month and year. This is especially helpful in constructing fictional characters because those old periodicals provide subjects … Continue reading
Fixing Our Dysfunctional Political System
There are very few political statements that can be made anymore to which virtually everyone will agree, but here’s one: Our republic is totally dysfunctional. The game that the political elites and the power brokers play is ruining the United … Continue reading
