Talented author and researcher Tim Hornbaker looks at the unfortunate ending of one the baseball’s greatest hitter’s careers, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, in “Fall from Grace.” The question we are still faced with over one hundred years after the Chicago White Sox threw the 1919 World Series, did “Shoeless” Joe Jackson actively participate in the gambler’s […]
Rik Emmett of Triumph fame shares his engaging rock memoir, demonstrating he isn’t your typical rocker – engaging in sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It becomes overt that Emmett is a musician, taking pleasure in the art of creating and performing music. Unlike many rock stars that love to party, Emmett made sure he
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“Alcatraz” by Michael Esslinger is meticulously researched and well written, this title definitely meets the criteria of “a definitive history.” Before it became the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1934, a place without hope for more than 1,500 inmates for 29 years, it was originally a lighthouse before becoming a military fortification and prison. The author
What started out as an idea for a regional sports service, blossomed into a sports media giant. ESPN has turned sports fans into addicts, and in fact, caused a woman to file for divorce claiming the network ruined her marriage. Devout ESPN watchers have even named their children ESPN, Travis Vogan offers an academic look
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Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was a place without hope, a prison of the mind. From 1934 to 1963, “The Rock” housed the prisoners the system deemed “high risk,” that required extra supervision. The incarcerated studied every square inch of the facility looking for any opportunity to escape what was considered the inescapable. While many may have
Who was the real Evel Knievel? When the daredevil’s bicycle helmet is taken off, and the legend is removed, the man remaining might not be the resemble the character we remember from his heydays. In “Evel,” Leigh Montville separates facts from fiction, and as you learn, that is not only the easiest proposition when it
“The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football” takes a hard look at the history of NFL, with a twist of comedy and humor. As the book claims, you receive a little education with lots of entertainment. The wonderful sportscaster Dan Patrick is the narrator, and does a fantastic job taking the listener through this journey. You
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Eddie Waitkus received a note, while staying at a Chicago hotel in June 1949, from a deranged stalker asking to meet him regarding an important matter. Having no idea of the person in question, Waiktus, a major league baseball player, asked the front desk about who had checked into the room mentioned in the note.
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“The Texas 7” is an engaging true crime audiobook about the daring escape of seven inmates from a Texas maximum security prison on December 13, 2000. In Kennedy, Texas, seven dangerous convicts escaped the facility driving away in a Department of Corrections truck, and started a massive manhunt for their captures. Gary C. King shares
William C. Dear, a Dallas-based private investigator. was hired by the Milo family to find the killer of Dean Milo in 1980. Milo ran the successful Milo Barber and Beauty Supply Company, a family business, and had rubbed his siblings the wrong way by his business practices. Additionally, there were rumors that Milo’s death could
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