Description
Dan's second book on baseball is an outgrowth of his passion to educate people and keeping the game of Baseball alive through his writings.
Baseball: From Providence to Prominence is broken down into three sections: first, baseball quotes; second, all original baseball stories on ballplayers from 1880 to 1970; third is Dan's own poems on baseball and the men that brought the game to life. Dan grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and is a proud graduate of Central High School. He also graduated from Rhode Island Junior College and the Community College of Rhode Island. He has one son, Richard Mickey D'Alessio, in California and a granddaughter named Alice. Dan was a sportswriter for Sports Journal magazine in Rhode Island in 2006-07. Some of his work was published by the Providence Journal, Rhode Island, College Anchor Newspaper and the Valley Breeze. Dan is a member of the Nap Lajoie chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research. He has received letters from Bud Selig and Robert Manfred on his poem titled "Dear Mr. Commissioner" about Shoeless Joe Jackson.
Author: Dan D'Alessio
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
Published: 01/12/2022
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781662438622
ISBN10: 1662438621
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History
- Biography & Autobiography | Sports