Experience a unique fan's-eye view of a night that many have called the most exciting night in the history of Major League Baseball. Going beyond a standard retelling of the balls and strikes and homers and webgems, the book hears from 20 fans in their own words. Loyal fans of the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and Tampa Bay Rays provide exciting and deeply personal eyewitness accounts -- either from the stadiums or their living rooms. This critically acclaimed book is for casual and serious fans alike.“This is a magical book about a magical night. This beautifully told story captures baseball at its very best.” – Doris Kearns Goodwin

Baseball's Starry Night: Reliving Major League Baseball's 2011 Wild Card Night of Shock and Awe

History

Kocak, Paul

Americas

Kocak Wordsmiths Ink

This stirring tribute in poetry and prose honors the rich cultural history and heritage of the  Tipperary Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, New York. Rather than serving as a recitation of facts and dates, "Tipp Hill Litanies" is a personal meditation on memory, identity, character, and place.

Tipp Hill Litanies: Celebrating a Syracuse Heritage

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

In the fourth such compilation, "People, Places, and Things" freeze-frames everyday life. Using essays, poetry, stream of consciousness, and flash fiction, this volume focuses on loss. Loss of people, places, and things as we make our way on our individual journeys. The Hole in the Donut. Problems Without Passports. The Weight of Absence. Murder on the Disorient Express. These are but some of the teasing topics. Although highly personal, these verbal snapshots invite readers to laugh or cry, stay or walk away. The main thing is for readers to be entertained or spellbound by these flash cards of modern life. With sparkling wit and snarky humor, as well as passion and compassion, "People, Places, and Things" paints a picture of spritual challenges and rewards. This is the twelfth book at Amazon.com by critically acclaimed author Paul Kocak. Readers have praised his writing as “charming and engaging” as well as “beautiful and poignant.” One reviewer celebrated “the author’s use of what might be called Socratic monologues, in which he questions himself to find out what he thinks.”

People, Places, and Things: Letting Go and Living Now

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

<p>An entertaining and evocative compilation (the third such collection) of musings, reflections, observations, and snarky verbal snapshots of life in America in the 21st century. These mordant morsels may make some readers "laugh out soft" or merely roll eyes out of sockets. Either way, these are original and digestible tidbits that can be read as your clothes are in the dryer. Or while you are on a very long elevator ride.</p>

The Third Coming: Ejaculations, Premature and Otherwise

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

<p>Spanning a baseball fan’s life, this memoir explores hero worship, coming of age, and obsession. Paul Kocak grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, as a New York Giants fan in baseball’s golden age. When the boy’s team moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, he became a fan in exile. Mostly because of Willie Mays, he stayed with the team that abandoned him (though he did try to reach out and touch Mays by phone). We relive backyard fantasies of fathers and sons and brothers and buddies who play Wiffle Ball and Hitting Them Out. We learn of a heart-breaking teenage drowning of the narrator’s neighbor, a Dodgers fan. The chronicle’s time line coincides with the assassination of JFK, the Beatles’ bursting onto the scene, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Second Vatican Council, and the Vietnam War. Kocak’s journey features encounters with Hall of Famer Willie McCovey, former Cy Young winner Vida Blue, commentator William F. Buckley Jr. — and Willie Mays. With a subtext of addiction and recovery, Chasing Willie Mays travels coast-to-coast and into the soul with grace, insight, and humor.</p>

Chasing Willie Mays

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

Creators Publishing

The Dog-Eared Book of Dog-Eared Quotations

Reference

Quotations

THIRD PERSON SINGULAR: 33 1/3 Poems Each

Valenti, Dan

Chaplin, Jerri

United States

Interviews with Famous Dead People

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