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Twinbill
A pair of historical baseball "blogellas: DEAR HANK, about a pen pal relationship between the Tigers slugger and a 10-year-old Jewish baseball fan in Austria in 1938, and THE BRAGGING RIGHTS LEAGUE, about a racially flipped 1941 in which a team of ragtag white players have to prove themselves in the black major league.
254 pages, Paperback
Published January 11, 2016
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About the author
Jeff Polman
8 books5 followersJeff Polman was born in Hartford, CT in 1954, grew up in Longmeadow, MA and graduated from the BDIC program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He worked for the Advocate Newspapers and Boston Phoenix before becoming Arts Editor for the Vermont Vanguard Press in Burlington, VT for its first five years.
Having enjoyed his time as a student filmmaker, he moved to Los Angeles in 1982 to pursue screenwriting. He has written over 20 scripts and has had two low-budget thrillers produced, Grave Secrets (1989) and Benefit of the Doubt (1993), a Miramax release which starred Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving. Baseball has long been one of his passions, and his season replay blogs have all been turned into published books: 1924 and You Are There!, Play That Funky Baseball (released as Ball Nuts), Mystery Ball '58, Twinbill (featuring "Dear Hank" and the Bragging Rights League"). He has also written Web articles for The Huffington Post, ChicagoSide Sports, Fire Brand of the American League, Seamheads, The Hardball Times, Baseball Prospectus, New England Baseball Journal, and The Platoon Advantage. His previous novel, The Invasion of Normandie, is a timely comic fable about the allure and dangers of celebrity.
RED JACARANDAS, to be released in January of, 2022, is a unique trio of "weird tales" about Los Angeles, two original screenplays wrapped around a short novel. Having grown up in New England watching countless scary movies as a youth, his new project is a return to his supernatural thriller roots. He lives in Culver City, CA with his artist wife Carmen Patti, and can be followed on Twitter at @ReddJeff8 or emailed at jpolman54@gmail.com
Having enjoyed his time as a student filmmaker, he moved to Los Angeles in 1982 to pursue screenwriting. He has written over 20 scripts and has had two low-budget thrillers produced, Grave Secrets (1989) and Benefit of the Doubt (1993), a Miramax release which starred Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving. Baseball has long been one of his passions, and his season replay blogs have all been turned into published books: 1924 and You Are There!, Play That Funky Baseball (released as Ball Nuts), Mystery Ball '58, Twinbill (featuring "Dear Hank" and the Bragging Rights League"). He has also written Web articles for The Huffington Post, ChicagoSide Sports, Fire Brand of the American League, Seamheads, The Hardball Times, Baseball Prospectus, New England Baseball Journal, and The Platoon Advantage. His previous novel, The Invasion of Normandie, is a timely comic fable about the allure and dangers of celebrity.
RED JACARANDAS, to be released in January of, 2022, is a unique trio of "weird tales" about Los Angeles, two original screenplays wrapped around a short novel. Having grown up in New England watching countless scary movies as a youth, his new project is a return to his supernatural thriller roots. He lives in Culver City, CA with his artist wife Carmen Patti, and can be followed on Twitter at @ReddJeff8 or emailed at jpolman54@gmail.com
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