Sporting Chance Press was at the Irish American Heritage
Center for the IBAM event. I was one of the authors present and had a table
with The
Brown and White, Sports
and Faith II, The 10
Commandments of Baseball, and my Saint Kevin and the Blackbird shirt.
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| THE BROWN AND WHITE |
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Great Quick Read
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The Brown and White is my own story about a
young Irish American boy in his freshman year in high school during the Chicago
Troubles in the late 1960s.
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| SPORTS AND FAITH II |
The Sports and Faith Series are books that promote the good
in sports. Sports and Faith Book 2 includes stories of current
professionals and legends; spotlighted are teams such as Bob Ladouceur s De La
Salle squad portrayed in the motion picture When the Game Stands Tall. Burke
Masters (featured on cover), Matthew Lightner, and Grant Desme three promising
athletes who decided on a role of lifetime service are spotlighted. McCaskey
recalls the stories of those who strove to make the cut on and off the field.
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| THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF BASEBALL |
The 10 Commandments of Baseball is about the
baseball principles created by the greatest Major League Baseball manager of
all time, Joe McCarthy. McCarthy's Irish youth was troubled by the early death
of his father and his parish priest convinced his mother that Joe should pursue
his baseball dreams and go to college rather than jump right into the plumbing
trade.
Most of my books are available on Amazon. But click on the
links above for more information.
Saint Kevin and the Blackbird is an an 800 year old Irish
story about the great saint. Saint Kevin went out to his small hut or cell to
pray one day and he extended his arm out the window of the tiny building. A
blackbird landed on his hand and the saint patiently left his arm outside while
the bird built a nested, laid eggs, and saw them hatch and fly away. Seamus
Heaney wrote a beautiful spiritual poem looking at what the saint might have
thought and gave his reasons for the deed. I was so enamored with
it that I had the shirt made up. Patrick McCaskey is a big Seamus Heaney
fan and in our next Sports and Faith book, Worthwhile Struggle, we
include Saint Kevin's story and the Heaney poem. You can see the
sweatshirt below, but send me your requirements at lmj.norris@gmail.com--it comes
in men's sizes small, medium, large, 1X large and 2X large. All are gray
long sleeved and I had another themed shirt made up on another saint a
few years ago just for myself and I have worn holes in it--it's that
comfortable.
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Saint Kevin and the Blackbird
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