Dodgers Aficionado, Museum Curator Publishes New Works By TED MEBUSTLOS ANGELES – It’s hard to imagine growing up closer to the game of baseball than Allen Schery, author of the recently published historical treatise “The Boys of Spring,” which details the history of the Dodgers franchise. According to Schery, his bedroom sat 200 feet from Ebbets Field, the “soul” of Flatbush, Brooklyn. “I was practically living where the parking lot would be, if they had one. The noises from the…
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Submariner Scalici’s Seminal Saga by TED MEBUST Local school board member and Vietnam War veteran Anthony Scalici published his first book this year, a memoir titled “Seasick Submariner: The Lure of Ocean Adventure from Old Staten Island to the U.S. Navy.” Told through a series of vignettes, Scalici recounts impactful moments as a son of Staten Island (before the Verrazano Bridge), an avid fisherman and a naval sonar technician. Recalling conversations with his immigrant grandparents and explorations along the island,…