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Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Thomas Porky McDonald
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ISBN: 9781449034603
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The re-birth of an idea from almost four decades past fuels this story of a pair of baseball fans who want to collectively chronicle the final season of their longtime home ballpark. In the skipper's scrapbook, poet and writer Thomas Porky McDonald shares the tale of the skipper, a man in his late 40's and The Chief, an octogenarian, who both still share the love of the game of baseball, in a way that is not as prevalent as it once was. Through the pages of a scrapbook based on photos taken as the final season of New York's Shea Stadium plays out, both the skipper and The Chief cover some old ground, while finding out a little more about one another and themselves. It is 2008, and the New York Mets are preparing for the 45th and final season of their old yard, Shea Stadium, when the skipper broaches the idea of a scrapbook to commemorate the entire season. Once before, back in 1969, the two had teamed up to create a similar volume, only then it was The Chief who had thought of the scrapbook idea, with the skipper, just a small boy, enthusiastically along for the ride. Of course, when the 100-1 New York Mets, the perennial lovable losers of the National League since their inaugural season in 1962, went on to win the first ever National League East title, the ensuing League Championship Series and ultimately the World Series, the scrapbook took on added value and meaning. So much so, that the skipper still has it languishing on a dusty old bookshelf when 2008, the final season of Shea, comes along. In the six months that it takes for a season to transpire, and in a most different way than it was done back in 1969, the new scrapbook takes the two men back one more time to what baseball had always meant to both of them and to so many other fans, even as a new breed of overly statistic-minded individuals crept more and more into the mainstream. A story of loyalty, the skipper's scrapbook is a decidedly honest account of what many feel when a treasured old ballpark stands down its final days. Whether you are a genuine baseball aficionado or not, the connection between the two main protagonists should prove variously touching, humorous and familiar.

Author: Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665501839
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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Having packaged his more than 3,100 poems in chronological and themed collections, poet & writer Thomas Porky McDonald had the idea of putting together a volume of some relevant pieces that feature his lifetime home of Queens, New York. On addition, Porkwalk: The Queens Collection utilizes the same formula that McDonald chose in a previous collection based on his 20 years working out of neighboring Brooklyn, Dem Poems: The Brooklyn Collection. The 364 poems contained in this book are divided into sections, with old friends, his Astoria neighborhood, baseball and the losses he has suffered in the mix. This collection brings the poet back to where it all began and is thus arguably the most important one to date.

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Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Ira Jones
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 1612001505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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Ira “Taffy” Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Well known in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had met or known by association, both during the war and in the post-war flying years. An Air Fighter’s Scrap Book recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record beating flights, all evoking the sheer delight in flying that characterized those early years.

Author: Margot Dixon
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039188672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Amongst the family albums her mother had kept, Margot Dixon found something very curious—Captain Samuel F. Scott’s old scrapbook. Who was this man? And why did her family have his scrapbook? As she read through the book, full of one-of-a-kind documents, she soon realized this intriguing scrapbook was much more than a family curiosity. From the items within the scrapbook and Margot’s own research, a fascinating story emerged, one of a life on the high seas in the late nineteenth century, sailing across some of the most dangerous waters, facing storms, shipwrecks, illness, war, mutiny, and tragedy. Born in New Brunswick, Captain Scott, along with his family, sailed across the world for various shipping companies. While sailing from England to India, his wife and two of his children tragically died. Returning to Canada, he remarried and, with his family in tow, sailed three times across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But, after years at sea and another tragedy, Captain Scott turned to gold mining in British Columbia, then explored business opportunities along the west coast of Canada and the United States before his untimely death. Based on the documents in Captain Scott’s original scrapbook, collected during his lifetime, 1847–1905, and then transcribed by Margot, Captain Scott’s Scrapbook provides an intimate account of one of Canada’s most remarkable post-confederate shipmasters.

Author: Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546207236
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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The second volume of mini-travelogues by poet and writer Thomas Porky McDonald, On the Tour: More City Walks, picks up where A Walk in the City: An Incomplete Tour left off. This time, in addition to some previously unmentioned museums, a number of parks, historic houses, theaters and New York landmarks join in the mix. From Washington Square Park to the Old Town Bar & Restaurant to the Louis Armstrong House to the Queens, Bronx and Prospect Park Zoos, The City is well represented in McDonalds brief vignettes. Once again, a Walking Distance addendum is featured, in order to give the traveler an idea of the most possible sites one can see in a given day. Another useful and understated guide to the writers lifetime home.

Author: Keith Skipper
Publisher: Poppyland Publishing
ISBN: 9781909796195
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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This treasure trove of Norfolk gems can only enhance Keith Skipper's reputation as one of the county's most colourful and passionate advocates. Shot through with his customary wit and humour, it forms an affectionate salute to packed years as writer, broadcaster and entertainer - all of them spiced with deep concern for his native patch. Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk in 2003, he was awarded an MBE in the 2007 New Year's Honours List for services to his local community. Keith has been writing and talking about Norfolk both for a living and for pleasure since leaving school in 1962 and becoming a cub reporter on the Thetford & Watton Times. This is volume Number 39 of a prolific production line featuring "the finest county of them all."

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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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