I went to the Old Timers Lunch on Friday in Sacramento, to do interviews for my book on Joe Marty. It was a good day in my life. I did a couple of key interviews and also got to talk to a former Sacramento Solon named Gus Stathos. Stathos, who I interviewed at the estate [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Joe Marty’
Gus Stathos, spring training in 1947, and Jackie Robinson
Posted: 14th May 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Gus Stathos, Joe Marty, ongoing projects
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News on the baseball writing front
Posted: 24th April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: IBWAA, Joe Marty
A couple of cool things happened for me baseball writing-wise this week. First, as regular readers may know, I joined the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America on Wednesday. Since then, I have been talking with the head of the group, and he has invited me to write for a Where Are They Now section [...]
About five years overdue: I join the Society for American Baseball Research
Posted: 15th April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, SABR
I did something today that I have wanted to do for the past few years and joined the Society for American Baseball Research. For those who don’t know, it is a research society for people who like to read, write and talk about baseball (I like to do all three.) I attended a lunch meeting [...]
Baseball coma
Posted: 22nd February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
I spent much of yesterday transcribing my interview from Saturday with the 96-year-old former big league teammate of Joe Marty, who I’m interested in writing a book on. While transcribing yesterday, between being held in some kind of spell — a baseball coma, if you will — I got further affirmation of what had already [...]
It’s like Christmas around here today
Posted: 20th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, Sacramento baseball players
It’s been an amazing last couple of hours in my life. I had a visitor scheduled for noon today. At 11:57, though, I got a call from the son of the 96-year-old former baseball player I have been wanting to interview for a book on one of his teammates on the 1940 Phillies, Joe Marty. [...]
Questions for the 96-year-old ballplayer
Posted: 10th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Ronnie King, Sacramento baseball players
I got some questions mailed off to the daughter of the 96-year-old former baseball player I want to interview. I’m interested in writing a book on one of his former teammates on the 1940 Philadelphia Phillies, Joe Marty, and this man is one of three people still living, all over 90, who played in the [...]
The question of alcoholism and the ex-player
Posted: 8th February 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, Sacramento baseball players
There is another story from Friday afternoon I have been meaning to tell here. After covering the Fred David estate sale in downtown Sacramento, I interviewed another old Sacramento Solons player, Sam Kanelos, at his bar across the street from the sale, Old Ironsides. Kanelos played more than 50 years ago with a Sacramento native [...]
Looks like my weekend plans are set
Posted: 4th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Fred David, Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
I was just looking at my Google Analytics stats and saw I had a spike yesterday in the number of people who read my obituary on former Sacramento Solons owner Fred David, who died in October at 100. I wondered if the Sacramento Bee had finally written anything about him. They declined to do a [...]
News on the book front
Posted: 23rd January 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
I got called yesterday to do some freelance corporate writing for a business in Antioch. On my way out to the company’s headquarters to meet with their upper management and get an idea of their needs, I realized I was only about an hour outside of Sacramento, where my parents live. Thus, after I finished [...]
How I spent my Saturday
Posted: 10th January 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
Today was a good day. For one thing, my first check from this site arrived today: $147.10, courtesy of a few advertisers. I’d write here for free, happily, but it’s cool to know I can make a few bucks. My goal is to eventually pay my Internet bill through proceeds from this site. I also [...]