Four
New Books from Sporting Chance Press
Available
at sportingchancepress.com and Amazon.com.
Baseball’s
Winning Ways is written
for enjoyment, inspiration, and information by the author of The 10 Commandments of Baseball, J. D.
Thorne. Baseball’s Winning Ways examines baseball eras and their backgrounds,
along with profiles of great current and past players. The drama of the game,
its history, baseball superstitions, statistics, and the story of trading cards
are presented clearly for readers from age 12 on up. The central theme of the
book is baseball’s principles that are essential to the best baseball programs.
The author points out that baseball promotes certain virtues that are so
important today. These are the values that parents, grandparents, teachers, and
coaches want to pass down to the next generation. $20, ISBN: 978-1-7345863-3-6
(Pub. 11/2020)
Papa
Bear and the Chicago Bears’ Winning Ways by Patrick McCaskey tells the dramatic story of George Halas
and his crucial role in professional football–all written for middle grades
readers. Papa Bear’s leadership took professional football from its beginning
into the modern age. In Papa Bear and the Chicago Bears’ Winning Ways,
highlights of history are presented with vintage photographs so readers are not
only exposed to the story of football, but they get American history as well.
Halas’s important words of wisdom, his winning ways, are also explored and are
tied into Ben Franklin’s self-help methods for young people. $12, ISBN:
978-1-7345863-1-2 (Pub. 8/2020)
Poems
About the Gospel feature
150 short works written by Patrick McCaskey. Each poem provides the author’s
own take on an individual passage of one of the Evangelists that are often read
at Mass and other Christian services. The poems reveal the thoughts and
feelings of a modern man responding to the Gospel with faith, humility, and
humor. The author’s poems remind us that the Christian faith is just as alive
today as ever, and the inspired writings live alongside all our foibles and
culture. The author’s sense of reality rushes in at unexpected times with a
“time out” for humor. Readers are struck with all the author’s variety of
thoughts that fall as they might, but never take away from the faith distilled.
A 45+ year veteran and Vice President of the Chicago Bears, Patrick McCaskey is
the grandson of founder George Halas. $20, ISBN: 978-1-7345863-2-9 (Pub. 11/2020)
Sportsmanship is the most ambitious book in Patrick
McCaskey’s popular Sports and Faith Series. First, readers are treated to a
Chicago Bears Calendar of historical events that celebrate Bears’ history for
each day of the year. Next, chapters feature interesting stories, sports
segments, personal reminiscences, faith experiences, and the author’s humorous
musings. Reflecting the practice of classic sports journalist memoirs, McCaskey
has frequently written about his favorite athletes and coaches. In
Sportsmanship, the author adds a new twist to this practice by including a
chapter on favorite writers who have inspired him. Towards the end of the volume are McCaskey’s
speeches that have been used at social and civil events, presentations to
churches and schools, and all types of occasions relating to his passion, the
Chicago Bears. $20 ISBN: 978-0-9819342-4-2 (Pub. 2/2020)
