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Baseball and Boat Builders
Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 1941.
Tony DiMarco is the Head of Raw Material Management at Brooklyn Yard, and a huge Joe DiMaggio fan. He gets a telephone call from FDR and Navy Secretary Frank Knox asking him to take a back-channel look into the Raw Material Management process at Charleston Naval Shipyard -- "Their cost over-runs are way above the norm,". says Frank Knox.
Using all the high-tech tools of the time, such as pay phone booths, mimeograph machines and the Reference section of the Public Library, Tony locates the rogue operator in the Charleston operation.
Frank Knox sends Tony down to Charleston to bag the bad guy. What follows is a mix of Sleuthing, World History, Charleston's Cuisine and a little romance, all played out to the daily beat of Joe D's 56 game hitting streak.
Come take a well-researched trip into Baseball's Last Innocent Summer.
Tony DiMarco is the Head of Raw Material Management at Brooklyn Yard, and a huge Joe DiMaggio fan. He gets a telephone call from FDR and Navy Secretary Frank Knox asking him to take a back-channel look into the Raw Material Management process at Charleston Naval Shipyard -- "Their cost over-runs are way above the norm,". says Frank Knox.
Using all the high-tech tools of the time, such as pay phone booths, mimeograph machines and the Reference section of the Public Library, Tony locates the rogue operator in the Charleston operation.
Frank Knox sends Tony down to Charleston to bag the bad guy. What follows is a mix of Sleuthing, World History, Charleston's Cuisine and a little romance, all played out to the daily beat of Joe D's 56 game hitting streak.
Come take a well-researched trip into Baseball's Last Innocent Summer.
87 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 19, 2021
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June 27, 2021
This is a fun cozy mystery with a couple of subplots that keep you interested right up until the end. The story takes place in the 1940s so some of the subject matter may be foreign to a younger audience. I am a bit older, so I identified with the events of the time.
The author uses the record hitting streak of baseball great Joe DiMaggio as the calendar for the mystery, a unique idea that worked well.
This is a novella sized book that you can read in about two to three hours. Great for those of us who live busy lives.
All-in-all Baseball and Boat Builders is a worthwhile endeavor.
The author uses the record hitting streak of baseball great Joe DiMaggio as the calendar for the mystery, a unique idea that worked well.
This is a novella sized book that you can read in about two to three hours. Great for those of us who live busy lives.
All-in-all Baseball and Boat Builders is a worthwhile endeavor.
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September 3, 2021I pulled this book up after seeing some of my regular readers buying it. THIS IS NOT MY BOOK, I DIDN'T WRITE IT!
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