by Adam Henig | Jan 26, 2016 | Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
One of the unforeseen delights of working on a book about baseball is that I was able to indulge in my childhood. Growing up in the San Francisco’s East Bay Area during the 1980s, I was fortunate to have Major League Baseball’s best and most exciting team in my...
by Adam Henig | Nov 21, 2015 | Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
On Sunday morning, November 8, when we jumped out of our SuperShuttle at the Tampa Airport to return to the San Francisco Bay Area, I remarked to my dad that we must have been the only visitors to St. Petersburg, Florida, who never spent a single moment at the...
by Adam Henig | Sep 22, 2015 | Alex Haley, Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
On Tuesday, October 20, I’ll be delivering a talk about Alex Haley at the Santa Clara Central Park Library. The lecture is sponsored by the Santa Clara County Historical and Genalogical Society. It is part of their monthly meeting, which begins at 6:00 p.m....
by Adam Henig | Jun 23, 2015 | Alex Haley, Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
We were at a standstill. On the freeway, my wife and I sat in the car, looking ahead and hoping to find the cause of an unforeseeable, Saturday afternoon traffic jam. Having allocated two hours before my 1:30 p.m. book talk at a retirement center, I was concerned I...