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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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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
Remade Music
Readers of this blog know that I enjoy history and I enjoy music. Most music. Some music. Don’t buy me opera tickets. . . . I digress. Anyway, the history of certain popular songs is fascinating to me. Growing up … Continue reading
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Tagged "Are You Lonesome Tonight", "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime", "If I Didn't Care", "It's Now or Never", "Love Letters in the Sand", "My Prayer", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Twist", "There I Said it Again", "There's No Tomorrow", Bobby Vinton, Chubby Checker, Connie Francis, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Ink Spots, music remakes, O sole mio, Pat Boone, Platters, Ted Black and his Orchestra, Tony Martin, Vaughn Monroe
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5 Classic, But Largely Forgotten Songs of WWII
Music played a very important part in maintaining morale not only on the home front, but also at the front. In The Boys We Knew, Johnny writes a letter to Command Performance, a radio program created by the military for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bette Davis sings, Command Performance, Ella Mae Morse, Four Vagabonds, Irving Berlin, Nilkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition This Is the Army play, Rosie the Riveter, songs of WW II, Thank Your Lucky Stars, The Boys We Knew, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, This is the Army Mr. Jones
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A Heart-felt Week
Well. This has been an interesting week. On Tuesday morning, an incredibly skilled surgeon, Dr. Vinay Badhwar, was snipping at a floppy flap in my heart using a robot, then placing a titanium ring around the problematic valve to keep … Continue reading
Posted in Life is Interesting, Uncategorized
Tagged Dr. Vinay Badhwar, mitral valve repair, robotic surgery
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Play by Play the Old-Fashioned Way
I love my high-definition television, especially when it comes to watching baseball games. I like replay and all the different camera angles and I like seeing it all from the comfort of my couch. Despite the visual splendor that modern … Continue reading
In the Mood for a Heart Update
I am happy to say that I have a surgery date to fix my leaky heart valve. That will occur on March 13th and I am excited at the prospects of having my energy restored. I met the surgeon, Dr. … Continue reading
Hearts and Hours
The last night I spent in a hospital was early March of 1957. I checked out of my mother and into the hospital on March 1st of that year and I’ve never been back since. That streak is about to … Continue reading
Ship Ahoy
Now that it’s dark by dinner time and there’s no baseball to watch, I highly recommend cozying up to a 1942 comedy called Ship Ahoy. Released in May of that year, that is just six months after Pearl Harbor, it … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged 1940s comedies, Bert Lahr, Eleanor Powell, Frank Sinatra, patriotic movies, Red Skelton, Ship Ahoy, Tommy Dorsey, Virginia O'Brien, WW II
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Great Subject Equals Great Art Equals Great Gift
Everyone should have a hobby. It not only keeps you off the streets, it makes it easier for the rest of us to get you a gift. For example, you can always give a golfer a dozen more golf balls. … Continue reading
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