by Tom Swyers | Oct 29, 2014 | Education, Saving Babe Ruth
Saving Babe Ruth is protected free speech. I wrote the novel Saving Babe Ruth while residing in a nice Upstate New York town called Niskayuna. I graduated from its high school in the 1970s and so did my wife; my son graduated from there two years ago. All three of us...
by Tom Swyers | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Our Stitches What follows is a copy of the speech I gave to the New Jersey State Championship Banquet in Berkeley, New Jersey the other week: “I would like to thank Bob Everett, Berkeley Little League, and Little League International for allowing me to speak to...
by Tom Swyers | Aug 3, 2014 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth
ALBANY, NY– August 3, 2014 — In an interview published this weekend, author Tom Swyers revealed the story behind Saving Babe Ruth and issued a challenge to readers. Lance Smith conducted the interview on his blog and it’s reprinted below:...
by Tom Swyers | Jul 14, 2014 | Saving Babe Ruth
I’ll be speaking at the evening banquet and signing copies of Saving Babe Ruth afterwards at the New Jersey Little League State Championships in Bayville, New Jersey on July 22nd. I’ll also be selling and signing copies of Saving Babe Ruth on July 23...
by Tom Swyers | Jun 27, 2014 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth
This morning, the white towers of earlier drafts of Saving Babe Ruth resemble rockets launching; yesterday, they stood like tombstones marking the graves of all the trees I’ve murdered over the years in writing the book. How perspective changes with the passage...