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It has been my honor to vote for Edgar Martinez with my Hall of Fame ballot, and I can't wait to see him go into Cooperstown in 2019, his 10th and final year of eligibility. It has also been my honor to include him at the start of #DiamondsFromTheDugout. So you can imagine my elation when this tweet popped up on Edgar's Twitter page. Thanks, Gar! #mariners
I interviewed Curtis Granderson during the 2016 World Series in his hometown of Chicago, the morning after he received the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award for his humanitarian efforts, especially helping children. He was giving a tour of the new University of Illinois-Chicago sports facility that he made possible with an endowment. After that interview, I asked him what hit meant the most to him and why, and the result is on page 37 of DIAMONDS FROM THE DUGOUT. I hope you will enjoy Curtis' offering, complete with a powerful everyday life lesson. I extend my thanks to the Dodgers' left fielder, a 300-double, 300-homer club member and postseason regular, for the kind book recommendation that he posted on Twitter!
You won't find a better person than Brooks Robinson, and it was so nice to spend time with him in the cocktail reception before this month's Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association 18th annual Legends for Youth Dinner at Capitale in Manhattan. We had fun talking about DIAMONDS FROM THE DUGOUT, which he helped make possible by providing the Foreword as well as the first insightful interview response about nine years ago that moved this entire project toward what became a well-received baseball book filled with everyday lessons. I'm proud to say that the book also benefits the Constance & Brooks Robinson Foundation, which helps important causes. I knew it was all meant to be when he agreed to write the Foreword on the very same day last April that I was inside Camden Yards posing with one of his statues. True story. Among the photos I took below is one of the 1955 Baltimore Orioles team stats, which is on a club-level hallway at the ballpark. If you look closely at that, you can see that a rookie named "Brooks Robinson" was 2-for-22 that first year, and that explains why he chose the hit that he did for this book! Don't miss his story and Foreword.
We not only talked a lot of baseball, but we helped a great cause: Public EducationFoundation of Evansville. Thanks to all!
First book signing and reading. More upcoming!
First sighting at a BN.
I'm a Local Author in Evansville, Indiana.
Signed nearly 100 of these. Look for yours at your local Barnes & Noble. If it's not there yet, please ask a BN staffer to order copies! Thanks!
This is what I saw when I took the escalator upstairs the morning of the book signing at the Evansville Barnes & Noble. Thanks, Mariana! You are amazing!
And there's your book signing catch phrase. What do you think?
Standing Room Only at the Evansville Barnes & Noble. The man in the pink shirt is a very special guest, by the way: My Evansville Central High School Journalism teacher, Edwin Cole. One of the all-time greats! So nice to see him and his wife Sharon!
So nice to be home in Evansville!
Thanks to Leanne and Randy Mauer for handing me SEVEN books to sign! It was nice to personalize every one of them. Her own copy has my old Whiffle ball lineup on the title page -- 9 lines each reading "Rod Carew".
Amy Walker, Executive Director of Public Education Foundation of Evansville, graciously spoke to our audience about PEF's mission. It was so nice to help a great cause.
The audience member to the right? Oh, just my 100-YEAR-OLD Grandpa, Woody Groomer, a WWII vet. So happy to introduce him to everyone. He danced the night before at the local Owls club.
Thanks to my wonderful wife Lisa for her support throughout the decade it took to bring DIAMONDS FROM THE DUGOUT to baseball fans.
A meaningful moment just before walking into my hometown Evansville Barnes & Noble to start the book tour.
Thanks to a standing-room-only crowd that came out to Barnes & Noble in Evansville on Saturday for a fantastic book launch event! We teamed up to raise funds for Public Education Foundation of Evansville, and I am especially thankful to PEF Executive Director Amy Walker for speaking to the audience about PEF's mission, and to Kathy Singer of PEF and Mariana of Barnes & Noble for organizing such a beautiful and memorable afternoon. Here's a slideshow of the afternoon!
One takeaway: People are buying DIAMONDS FROM THE DUGOUT not just as a single copy, but in batches as gifts for so many people from all walks who love baseball, no matter what your team or town.
We're off and running! Looking forward to many more book signings and readings to come! Please be sure to LIKE the official Facebook page for our book at facebook.com/MarkNewmanAuthor! Ask your local Barnes & Noble if they have the book yet, and please leave a review if you order it online, as that will help us appear in search results. Thanks!
Evansville native Mark Newman's book asks baseball's greats: Which hit was your favorite?
By Chad Lindskog, Evansville Courier & Press
EVANSVILLE — Mark Newman received a wakeup call last year on the morning of Game 7 of the World Series.
It was Pete Rose.
Newman scrambled to put baseball's all-time hit king on speakerphone and open Microsoft Word on his computer inside a Cleveland hotel room. Then he asked this question: What hit meant the most to you and why? . . . Read more >>
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