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• John has received a Career Initiative Grant from the Loft Literary Center to promote his book in Cooperstown, New York, during the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Induction Weekend in July.
   

• John's new book, Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever, which chronicles the watershed 1973 Major League Baseball season, was released in April 2008 by Sourcebooks.
   

• John will discuss the seminal events and major characters of the 1973 season and sign copies of Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever on Tuesday, May 13, at Kieran's Irish Pub as part of the "Raking through Books" series sponsored by Kieran's Pub, The Rake and The Loft. Click here for more info.
   

• John examines what happens after we die in a profile of mortician Carrie Lee Starry in the May 2008 issue of Twin Cities Business magazine.
   

• John examines the life of a homeless high school student in his profile of Ambrose Achua, which appears in the May issue of Mpls. St. Paul Magazine
   

• John is featured in "Pond Hockey: A Documentary Film," which made its world premiere in April. To view the trailer and preorder a DVD, visit www.pondhockeymovie.com
   

• Divide Pictures, the production company of actor Milo Ventimiglia (Rocky Balboa), recently optioned the movie and television rights to John’s book on high school hockey in Minnesota “Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win”.  No word yet on its Hollywood fate.
   

• John's book, Big Book Unplugged, which is a guide to the text of Alcoholics Anonymous, has been translated into Spanish and distributed in Mexico.
   

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