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We are a small, independent press located in Northern New Jersey specializing in niche publishing of non-fiction titles.

Announcements

Announcements2Watch this page for further news and scheduled appearance announcements concerning our authors and their books.

 

Appearances

Author Date Time Location Details
J. Chester Johnaon
 Oct 26 2-4pm Harvard Coop Bookstore,
Cambridge, MA

Event AnnouncementJ. Chester Johnson will be selling and personally signing his 3 most recent books: St. Paul’s Chapel & Selected Shorter Poems (2010); Now And Then: Selected Longer Poems (2017); and Auden, the Psalms, and Me (2017). He will also be chatting about his forthcoming book to be released in May, 2020: Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre And A Story of Reconciliation.
Bruce Markusen
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New Course,
Just Released!

 In Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime, a newly released course on TheGreatCourses.com online learning platform, Bruce Markusen, the Manager of Digital and Outreach Learning at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, shows you how the study of baseball transforms the way in which you view American history as it happened during the last century, or so.
Mark R. Milliken Oct 4 2pm Ocean Pines Library
11107 Cathell Rd
Ocean Pines MDop_branch_0

The author of The 1966 World Series and Baltimore will be discussing a nostalgic time for Orioles fans; as well as, the iconic city itself.  The book signing will follow his presentation.

 

This Week’s Podcast

Good Seats Still Available

Goto Podcast

 Episode 105: The World Football League’s Detroit Wheels – With St. Johann Press author Mark Speck.  

Mark has been referred to as the World Football League’s researcher extraordinaire.  This week on the Good Seats Still Available podcast, Mark tells the story of the Detroit Wheels, perhaps the only World Football League franchise from its inaugural 1974 season that stood out more for its own brand of woeful ineptitude than any other franchise in the league.  And get the book that tells the entire story, Nothing But a Brand-New Set of Flat Tires: The Sad, Sorry Saga of the Detroit Wheels of the World Football League.

News

Frank Robinson, Hall of Fame Slugger and First Black Manager,
Dies at 83

Frank Robinson, the Hall of Fame outfielder who hit 586 home runs and became a racial pioneer as the first black manager in the major leagues, nearly three decades after Jackie Robinson broke modern baseball’s color barrier playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83.

Major League Baseball announced the death but did not specify the cause. The Baltimore Sun recently reported that Robinson was in the late stages of a long illness.

Playing for 21 seasons, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles, Robinson was the only winner of the Most Valuable Player Award in both the National and American Leagues.

He was an intense and often intimidating presence, leaning over the plate from his right-handed stance, daring pitchers to hit him (which they did, 198 times), then retaliating with long drives, “pounding pitchers with fine impartiality,” as the baseball writer Roger Kahn once wrote. He broke up double plays with fearsome slides.

by Richard Goldstein
Reprinted from The New York Times, Feb. 7, 2019

Frank Robinson won the American League MVP in 1966; a year covered by Mark R. Millikin in his book The Glory of the 1966 Orioles and Baltimore