Spitballer Linda Olson A Picture and a Criticism

A Picture and a Criticism of Life presents a selection from his previously unpublished letters and shows Dreiser in every mood and circumstance

A Bigger Boat chronicles the Albuquerque Slam Poetry scene's growth and success at the 2005 National Poetry Slam competition

Randy Roberts charts the life and career of a man widely regarded as one of the toughest ever to enter the ring

to invite their readers into distant worlds

in rhythms of language and with dramatic insights that surpass even his first book

Spitballer Linda Olson A Picture and a CriticismSpitballer is the biography of one of baseball's greatest pitchers. Stan Coveleski was a quiet, modest man, the youngest and most successful of five ball playing Polish American brothers who worked in the coal mines near their hometown of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Hoping to escape the mines' low wages and dangerous working conditions, Coveleski turned to professional baseball. He learned the spitball pitch during a three year stint in the Minor Leagues