by Tom Swyers | Dec 23, 2013 | Civil War, Novel, Saving Babe Ruth
On Christmas day during the Civil War in 1862, a few New York regiments stationed in Hilton Head, South Carolina played a baseball game and gave birth to a baseball mystery. One of the players that day was a soldier named Abraham Mills. According to Gunther Barth,...
by Tom Swyers | Dec 11, 2013 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth
I’ve been chasing shadows with my upcoming novel, Saving Babe Ruth. While I can always step on my shadow’s feet, my shadow inevitably slips away, forever one step beyond my grasp. That’s what it feels like to be writing a novel, at least to me. I tend to think...
by Tom Swyers | Nov 22, 2013 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth
Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I was four years old on November 22, 1963 when Lee Harvey Oswald shot his rifle and killed the President. The events of that day are one of my earliest memories. I recall watching our...
by Tom Swyers | Nov 12, 2013 | Saving Babe Ruth, Uncategorized
In honor of Veterans Day, I thought it might be interesting to revisit a moment in history when baseball was almost lost due to war.It was a few weeks after Pearl Harbor when baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis wrote President Franklin Roosevelt and...
by Tom Swyers | Aug 21, 2013 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, The Big Picture, Uncategorized
Christopher Lane, a promising college baseball player, was murdered by a gunshot to the back the other day and the tragedy has prompted me to do some thinking. One of the teens arrested was reported to have said that he and his accomplices were “bored” and “decided to...
