Bookies Bookstore to host Chicago Bears VP Patrick McCaskey for Book Signing on June 15, 2019

                                                                                

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Crystal Lake, IL—Sporting Chance Press author Patrick McCaskey will be signing his new book Worthwhile Struggle at Bookies this Saturday in Chicago at 10324 South Western Avenue at 1 PM.

Bear fans think this year’s team might lead to something special–if you want something special this year for Christmas, birthdays, and Fathers’ Day–Worthwhile Struggle checks all the boxes. Worthwhile Struggle is the fourth book in the Sports and Faith Series published by Sporting Chance Press of Crystal Lake. Each chapter is titled after one of the author’s 10 Commandments of Football, principles based on McCaskey’s life with the Chicago Bears and reflecting his own distinctive sense of humor. The book includes vignettes of athletes such as Tom Waddle, Bill Wennington, and Sister Jean of Loyola University (who also graces the cover). McCaskey family stories, Bears history, and sports questions/answers round out the sports coverage. For the faith component, stories of saints and McCaskey’s Biblical poems are included. Struggle is a theme that is clearly seen and understood in sports, which serves as a metaphor for life lessons in the Series.

McCaskey, a grandson of Chicago Bears founder, George “Papa Bear” Halas, is one of the team owners and serves as a Vice President. McCaskey is a frequent speaker and author who is involved in the Bears charitable and outreach efforts.  Working for good causes for over 40 years, McCaskey is Chair of Catholic Radio Station WSFI (88.5 FM) and Sports Faith International (an initiative the honors high school, college, and professional athletes and coaches who lead exemplary lives).  

Specs:

Worthwhile Struggle

352 Pages, 5.5” x 8.5”

Paperback

Includes index, table of contents

Photo and Illustrations

Pub. 2019, $20 each

Printed in the United States

Brown and White Update

I have not paid enough attention to marketing my own book, The Brown and White. However just recently I have been sending note out to high school English teachers. If  you get one of these, I am serious about sending sample books out to English teachers that may be able to use the book and assign it for their courses.  I am convinced that The Brown and White will get read by students from Catholic High Schools. I started writing just after graduating myself! 

You can see the book at sportingchancepress.com

Description:

Forty plus years in the making, The Brown and White is a fictionalized memoir that tells the story of Collin Callaghan's freshman year at a Chicago Catholic High School. Collin is a white boy who is living in turbulent times in a changing city. He clings to his neighborhood and his family as he heads out each day with his classmates on the Brown and White, the ancient school bus driven by free-spirited Willie. Memorable characters abound as this story unfolds. Collin's loveable family, especially his Irish Catholic policeman father and his Irish immigrant mother face life together. Collin and classmates blaze their own humorous and passionate trail through the late 1960s. A unique cast of terrific teachers are there to see the boys through. Laughs and life meet readers head on as they travel on the Brown and White.

About the Author:

Sporting Chance Press author Lawrence Norris has a little marble angel on his desk, just under his computer screen. It's not very big, but Norris says it "looks over" all his labor each day. Norris wears a brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel every day. It's the scapular that he always wore as a student at Mount Carmel High School in Chicago. On one wall of his little office, there are religious images housed in beautiful gold frames that are shaped like little stained glass windows. His desk is home-made from an old dining room table. And as a publisher and an author, surrounding Norris are boxes of his company's books and an old floor to ceiling bookcase that includes a small sampling of his old books. He has another small bookcase by him and several more throughout his house. Most of his old books have little value to anyone other than himself.

Norris is not sure if the Dominican Sisters who educated him in grade school or the Carmelites who did the same in high school or the Benedictines who took Norris on in college would love all his work. But he hopes so.

Details:
Product Details: The Brown and White
ISBN: 978-0-9819342-7-3
192 pages, paperback,
September 2016