Sunbury Press Books Show -- Baseball Memories by Ron Mayer
Ronald A. Mayer is the author of a number of baseball\xa0books:\xa0The 1932 Yankees, 1937 Newark Bears: A Baseball Legend,\xa0Perfect! 14 Pitchers of Perfect Games,\xa0Christy Mathewson: A Game-by-Game Profile of a Legendary Pitcher,\xa0The 1923 New York Yankees,\xa0 and\xa0The New Jersey Book of Lists.\xa0\n\nHis latest book,\xa0Baseball Memories, is a collection of 101 poems celebrating America\u2019s national pastime - - baseball.\xa0It recalls a number of outstanding players and their achievements.\xa0 For example, Joe DiMaggio\u2019s 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams .406 batting title in 1941 and the magical pitching of Orel Hershiser just to mention a few.\xa0 It also highlights some of the wild and zany events Major League Baseball would love to forget.\xa0 The night in Cleveland when the club ran a promotion selling 12 ounces of beer at the ridiculously low price of 10 cents or at Dodger Stadium when someone had the bright but eventual disastrous idea to hold Ball Night.\xa0 And then there are the classic games that are simply fun to recall and relive.\xa0 In 1993 when the Toronto Blue Jays won their second consecutive World Series in dramatic fashion or the more recent 2016 World Series when every baseball fan was watching two teams, the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, both having failed to win a Fall Classic in many, many years.\xa0 The last World Series championship for Chicago was 1908 and for the Indians 1948.\n\nEntrance and exit music courtesy of Capital recording artists BANG.