*On this day in 2021, Robert Feder reported the following news in the Daily Herald...
A new book about the late Chicago White Sox legend Dick Allen has just been optioned for a documentary film. Chili Dog MVP: Dick Allen, The 1972 White Sox and a Transforming Chicago, soon to be published by Chicago-based Eckhartz Press, was written by John Owens and Dr. David Fletcher and edited by veteran sportswriter, baseball historian and author George Castle. (Here is the link to order.) “We look back at this unique time in Chicago history, when the arrival of a controversial slugger lifted the Sox out of a daunting hole and united a fractious fan base during a time when Chicago was going through tremendous changes,” said Owens, a longtime producer and president of the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Allen, who missed induction to Cooperstown by one vote in 2014, is on the 10-person National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Golden Days Era Committee ballot. Andy Billman, the former ESPN producer who directed episodes of the “30 For 30” series, optioned the book and will be with Allen’s family in Orlando for the Hall of Fame vote December 5. A portion of the book’s proceeds will be donated to Gilda’s Club Chicago.
*On this day in 2016, Bobby Skafish appeared at Lone Star Steak House to promote his book We Have Company.
*On this day in 2018, I attended the gut-wrenching farewell party to my long time friend and Eckhartz Press author, Mark Gelinas. You can see some photos and read the piece I wrote about the party,
right here.
*Today is author Robert Walker's birthday. Walker is not an Eckhartz Press author, but he is an Eckhartz Press blurber. Here's what he said about Randy Richardson's first book with us,
Cheeseland...
Cheeseland’ is a novel that touches the reader; a novel about life, death, and how we choose to live our lives…how we want the dash between the dates on our tombstone to resonate.
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