Split Season 1981

Fernandomania, The Bronx Zoo and The Strike That Saved Baseball

(Thomas Dunne Books)

 

 

Split Season 1981: Fernandomania, The Bronx Zoo and The Strike That Saved Baseball is the never-before-told, behind the scenes story of the exciting and memorable 1981 baseball season, the year of Fernando Valenzuela, Pete Rose and the last Yankees-Dodgers World Series, and the mid-season, owner-provoked strike that cut the heart out of the American summer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top Ten Finalist for Spitball Magazine's 2015 Casey Award. 

 

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On Main St., Cooperstown
On Main St., Cooperstown

From Jim Caple's ESPN visit. Photo by Robert Caplin.

From New York Times
From New York Times

Article by Richard Sandomir, photo by Andrew Sullivan.

Baseball Project Day
Baseball Project Day

I mayorally proclaimed August 1, 2014, "Baseball Project Day" in Cooperstown. Scott McCaughey, Mike Mills, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon (L-R).

SABR
SABR

At SABR meeting at the Baseball Hall of Fame

Seaver and Me
Seaver and Me

With the great one, October 2003

Stills, Nash and Katz
Stills, Nash and Katz

One of many failed supergroups.