by Adam Henig | May 21, 2016 | Alex Haley, Self-publishing, Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg
The Story Behind the Book A couple of years ago, when I began researching my second book, I had no title in mind, no contacts, and little to go on. The central figure, Dr. Ralph Wimbish, did not even have a Wikipedia page. What I did have was an article I came...
by Adam Henig | Mar 22, 2016 | Alex Haley, Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
Following my most recent post, “Baseball, the Great Escape,” I received an outpouring of emotional responses from family, friends, co-workers, and fans. One reader wrote: I’m sorry that ALS took your mom too early but it’s clear that her...
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 | Dec 17, 2015 | Alex Haley, Book Review, Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
If 2014 marked my debut as an independently published author, this year I hunkered down and focused on my second book, Under One Roof: The Yanks, The Cards, and a Black Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Baseball’s Spring Training. During the last twelve months, I’ve...
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...