"Die-hard baseball fans will really go for this book."-Chicago Tribune

"Covers all the major people and events of Cal's professional and baseball life."-Publishers Weekly

In The Real Coach K, Kaminsky tells how he achieved his dream of becoming a successful player and launched a coaching career that has spanned various sports, including basketball, baseball, and golf. From his days at Chillicothe High School in Pennsylvania to Millersport High School and The Ohio State University at Newark, Kaminsky celebrates his successes, reflects on his failures, and tells of all the lessons he learned that still apply today.

The Real Coach K is an inspiration to anyone who aims to accomplish his or her dreams while besting the competition along the way.

In The Real Coach K, Kaminsky tells how he achieved his dream of becoming a successful player and launched a coaching career that has spanned various sports, including basketball, baseball, and golf. From his days at Chillicothe High School in Pennsylvania to Millersport High School and The Ohio State University at Newark, Kaminsky celebrates his successes, reflects on his failures, and tells of all the lessons he learned that still apply today.

The Real Coach K is an inspiration to anyone who aims to accomplish his or her dreams while besting the competition along the way.

STRIPED BASS "he is telling about the rumor of a spotter plane out of the Chesapeake reporting a thirty-seven mile long school of large striped bass coming down along the coast of Virginia."

BLUEFISH "the boys are running along a summer afternoon's surf chasing flighty schools of small blues scattering bait beneath the terns."

BONEFISH "they mount the edge of the sill in cautious sallies, keeping their shadows close beneath them; briefly on, quickly off."

POMPANO "there were shoals of pompano turning in the evening surf like polychromatic discs returning the last violet rays of the sinking sun."

TUNA "and he told of his years with the charter boat fleet hunting the giant tuna, the giant tuna that were no more."

GROUPER "they fished tarred hand lines without leaders and sunk with sash weights the hooks baited with orange chunks of conch."

STRIPED BASS "he is telling about the rumor of a spotter plane out of the Chesapeake reporting a thirty-seven mile long school of large striped bass coming down along the coast of Virginia."

BLUEFISH "the boys are running along a summer afternoon's surf chasing flighty schools of small blues scattering bait beneath the terns."

BONEFISH "they mount the edge of the sill in cautious sallies, keeping their shadows close beneath them; briefly on, quickly off."

POMPANO "there were shoals of pompano turning in the evening surf like polychromatic discs returning the last violet rays of the sinking sun."

TUNA "and he told of his years with the charter boat fleet hunting the giant tuna, the giant tuna that were no more."

GROUPER "they fished tarred hand lines without leaders and sunk with sash weights the hooks baited with orange chunks of conch."

New England sports fans wonder about Guy Vitale, East Boston's greatest athlete, who lettered in three sports and had so much football and baseball talent that sportswriters said it wasn't a question of whether he'd turn pro, but only which sport he'd pick.

An All-Scholastic choice by Boston's leading newspapers in his junior and senior years, 1936 Baseball Schoolboy Hall of Famer after hitting .621 his senior year, Guy starred on Barnstable's legendary 1937 club and 1938 Cape Cod League Champion, Falmouth. Everyone believed he possessed all the necessary tools to attain his dream: playing Major League baseball.

What happened? This chronicle of Vitale's life, written by his nephew, author of two previous novels, explains why he didn't make it to the Big Leagues, but achieved a measure of glory during a satisfying career serving his Country.

This book tells all in a riveting manner; so compelling you won't want to put it down. Ciampa, Curry, Famulari, Hegner, Herman, Indrisano, Khederian, Lennie Merullo, Morse, Rocciolo, the Sacco boys, Siciliano, Struzzerio, beloved St. Lazarus priests, Father Francisco Berti and Father Leo Toma, famed East Boston Coach Fred O'Brien; they're all here, their lives touching Guy's in different ways.

A must read!

New England sports fans wonder about Guy Vitale, East Boston's greatest athlete, who lettered in three sports and had so much football and baseball talent that sportswriters said it wasn't a question of whether he'd turn pro, but only which sport he'd pick.

An All-Scholastic choice by Boston's leading newspapers in his junior and senior years, 1936 Baseball Schoolboy Hall of Famer after hitting .621 his senior year, Guy starred on Barnstable's legendary 1937 club and 1938 Cape Cod League Champion, Falmouth. Everyone believed he possessed all the necessary tools to attain his dream: playing Major League baseball.

What happened? This chronicle of Vitale's life, written by his nephew, author of two previous novels, explains why he didn't make it to the Big Leagues, but achieved a measure of glory during a satisfying career serving his Country.

This book tells all in a riveting manner; so compelling you won't want to put it down. Ciampa, Curry, Famulari, Hegner, Herman, Indrisano, Khederian, Lennie Merullo, Morse, Rocciolo, the Sacco boys, Siciliano, Struzzerio, beloved St. Lazarus priests, Father Francisco Berti and Father Leo Toma, famed East Boston Coach Fred O'Brien; they're all here, their lives touching Guy's in different ways.

A must read!

Names change with the seasons but Purple Passion lives forever in Pirate Country. While just a game at other places, football is king at ECU. It is a place rich in heroes and heritage. But the rise of football from obscurity to grandeur only gained full measure in the last forty years. Here lies the tales of how it was done.

Set sail on this odyssey to a place called Pirate County, where it's a First Down Pirates, and football is lived and loved 365 days a year.

Names change with the seasons but Purple Passion lives forever in Pirate Country. While just a game at other places, football is king at ECU. It is a place rich in heroes and heritage. But the rise of football from obscurity to grandeur only gained full measure in the last forty years. Here lies the tales of how it was done.

Set sail on this odyssey to a place called Pirate County, where it's a First Down Pirates, and football is lived and loved 365 days a year.

Little did a young Alan Williams know when he received his first bike—a fat-tire, red and white Columbia with only a single gear—that he would one day ride a bicycle across the northern United States. In his narrative, Williams chronicles his two-month cycling trip from Oregon to New Hampshire, where he would celebrate the fulfillment a lifelong dream by dipping his bicycle wheels in the Atlantic Ocean.

Williams shares the emotions and moments that led up to his decision to ride across the country and chronicles his subsequent 3,700-mile journey that included laboring up switchbacks on mountain roads, speeding down from mountain passes, bucking headwinds across a seemingly endless prairie, fearing that a tender derrière might derail the mission, and experiencing the elation of reaching the Atlantic coast. While sharing descriptions of places of interest, photographs, and training tips, Williams also offers a glimpse into the physical and mental effort required to complete such a journey.

For anyone considering undertaking a bicycle expedition of any length, From Sea to Shining Sea provides guidance, advice, and inspiration from a man who sacrificed and persevered in order to achieve a successful cross-country bike ride he will never forget.

Little did a young Alan Williams know when he received his first bike—a fat-tire, red and white Columbia with only a single gear—that he would one day ride a bicycle across the northern United States. In his narrative, Williams chronicles his two-month cycling trip from Oregon to New Hampshire, where he would celebrate the fulfillment a lifelong dream by dipping his bicycle wheels in the Atlantic Ocean.

Williams shares the emotions and moments that led up to his decision to ride across the country and chronicles his subsequent 3,700-mile journey that included laboring up switchbacks on mountain roads, speeding down from mountain passes, bucking headwinds across a seemingly endless prairie, fearing that a tender derrière might derail the mission, and experiencing the elation of reaching the Atlantic coast. While sharing descriptions of places of interest, photographs, and training tips, Williams also offers a glimpse into the physical and mental effort required to complete such a journey.

For anyone considering undertaking a bicycle expedition of any length, From Sea to Shining Sea provides guidance, advice, and inspiration from a man who sacrificed and persevered in order to achieve a successful cross-country bike ride he will never forget.