A history of the baseball club that, after entering the National League West in 1969 and giving a roller-coaster performance, signed winning manager Dick Williams and began developing a winning habit.
Traces the history of the National League club nicknamed "the Fizz Kids" during their losing years, but who became known as "the Whiz Kids" after their 1980 championship season.
Bob Edwards, the Great White North's equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, or in between. As editor James Martin points out in his illuminating introduction, Bob Edwards seems more modern the farther back in history he recedes; he was the granddaddy of Gonzo Journalism à la Hunter S. Thompson, a freewheeling cultural critic in the spirit of Lester Bangs, a pioneer of satirical reform as evidenced in Frank magazine, and a spoofer of the po-faced reporting of his day in precisely the same way that The Onion is now. Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters features mountains of Edwards's superb aphorisms, a generous helping of his longer and lesser-known works, and some choice items which have never before seen print, as well as miraculous archival discoveries and many cartoons from Edwards's celebrated Eye Opener. It is a welcome addition to the Bob Edwards canon for those who thought they knew everything about him, and an eye-opening introduction to the uninitiated: "He was writing this stuff a hundred years ago!
The second book in a series, "Grover Always Said" tells the reader more about the life and times of Grover Cleveland Walborn, the premier story teller in Michaelville, PA during the author's childhood and young adulthood. Although Grover lived and died in the house he was in which he was born, and everyone in and around Michaelville knew him, there was an air of mystery about the man. "Grover Always Said" attempts to solve some of the mystery.
The exciting life of one committed man whose simple little idea ("Let's play ball!") God is using to make a huge impact on thousands of disenfranchised children, their families, their community, their city and their world.
A collection of satirical, comedic and entertaining essays, poetry and short stories or vignettes on a broad range of subjects written in a broad range of styles, written by a refugee from hi technology sales and marketing.
Bob Wiedrich for many years was Chicago¡¦s foremost newspaper columnist, writing in the Chicago Tribune about crime, corrupt politicians and major personalities. He made his mark shortly after mid-century, an era when the Mafia held a dominant role and the power of the press was at its zenith. In those days, the Tribune called itself the World¡¦s Greatest Newspaper. Hoodlums lived in fear of Wiedrich, who rooted out their nefarious activities, serving as a prod to law enforcement and the courts. It was a time when television and radio were unable to push the newspapers aside and there was yet no cable TV, satellite communication, or the Internet. In these pages, Wiedrich recounts his exploits and the highlights of a career that can never be duplicated, as the forces of new media continue to fragment the nation¡¦s press. In addition to the assassination of Robert Kennedy, Wiedrich writes of the deadly Our Lady of Angels elementary school fire, the trial of mass murderer Richard Speck and efforts to quell Chicago gangland¡¦s sinister floating crap game. As well, he documents his world travels to 17 countries, including Afghanistan, in pursuit of the global narcotics trade. Wiedrich¡¦s career spanned the newspaper era from the typewriter and Linotype machine to the digital age. He would not write 30 to his reporting until he was in hailing distance of a new millennium. Þ William Sluis, a longtime editor and friend Author and longtime Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Wiedrich
A collection of satirical, comedic and entertaining essays, poetry and short stories or vignettes on a broad range of subjects written in a broad range of styles, written by a refugee from high technology sales and marketing.
This author takes a humorous look at the chores he encountered as afarm boy growing up in Hampton, Iowa. He began drawing as a boy and was encouraged by other cartoonist from newspapers. He later worked for an advertising agency. Now retired, he returned to the farm that had been his boyhood home. That farm, in the Artley family for more than a century, is the place of this book.
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