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Announcing: It's Just a Game

About the book: Similar to how H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights uses high school football in Texas as a lens to look at society, Brian Carriveau’s It’s Just a Game observes adult amateur baseball in Wisconsin as a means to examine small-town America. The non-fiction book,...

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It’s Just a Game Tour

by Admin on August 17, 2012 - 1 comment

Throughout 2012, author Brian Carriveau will be making book-signing appearances throughout Wisconsin in support of It’s Just a Game, beginning in Monona on Sunday Apr. 29. Tour dates are as follows with additional appearances to be added. Sunday Apr. 29, Monona––Home Talent League Opening Day, Marshall at Monona, 1:00 p.m. Thursday May 3, Fort Atkinson––It’s Just a Game Release Party, Fat Boyz, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday May 6, Verona––Home Talent League Western Section Opening Day, Wiota at Verona, 1:00 p.m. Friday May …

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Jim Gantner and Brian Carriveau Thank You

by Admin on August 13, 2012 - 0 comments
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Former Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Jim Gantner and author Brian Carriveau would like to thank everyone who came out to the Home Talent League All-Star game and book signing on Aug. 3 to support our cause. In addition to a terrific game on the field, which was won by the North-West 5-4 over the South-East in walk-off fashion, money was raised and donated to the American Red Cross through book and autograph sales.

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Gantner, Carriveau Book Signing at HTL All-Star Game

by Admin on July 29, 2012 - 0 comments
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Former Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Jim Gantner and author Brian Carriveau will team up for a book signing at the Home Talent League All-Star Game on Friday Aug. 3 at Warner Park in Madison. Gantner and Carriveau will be signing copies of It’s Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America about Wisconsin’s Home Talent League released earlier this year. Books will be available for $20 and will include autographs. Pictures with Gantner will be free. A portion of …

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“Road to Valor” Fantastic Addition to Narrative Nonfiction Sports Literature

by Admin on July 20, 2012 - 0 comments
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The timing is perfect. Released shortly before the Tour de France, Aili and Andres McConnon expertly capitalized on interest in the world-renowned bicycle race in their book Road to Valor: A True Story of World War II Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation. It’s a biographical account of the life of Gino Bartali, a two-time winner of the Tour and the only athlete who’s gone as many as ten years between triumphs. As amazing as what …

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PackersHallofFame.com Publishes Excerpt from It’s Just a Game

by Admin on June 25, 2012 - 0 comments
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PackersHallofFame.com, the official website of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, has published an excerpt from It’s Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America. The excerpt follows the story of Bill Short and how he went from broadcast journalist to the kicking coach of the Packers during the Vince Lombardi era in Green Bay. Now in his seventies, Short’s football coaching days are behind him, but he still umpires town-team baseball games in southern Wisconsin’s Home …

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Father’s Day Weekend Book Signings

by Admin on June 14, 2012 - 0 comments
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Still looking for a Father’s Day present? Might we suggest a copy of It’s Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America? Author Brian Carriveau will make two book signing appearances on Father’s Day Weekend at Home Talent League baseball games. The first will be on Saturday June 16 at the 81st annual Cottage Grove Firemen’s Festival as Cottage Grove hosts Poynette at 2:00 p.m. Central time. The following day, a book signing will take place at the …

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