The skipper's scrapbook

the long version

"The re-birth of an idea from almost four-decades past fuels this story of a pair of baseball fans who want to collectively chronicle the final season of their longtime home ballpark. In "the slipper's scrapbook," poet and writer Thomas Porky McDonald shares the tale of the skipper, a man in his late 40's and the chief, an octogenarian, who both still share the love of the game of baseball, in a way that is not as prevalent as it once was. Through the pages of a scrapbook based on photos taken as the final season of New York's Shea Stadium plays out, both the skipper and the chief cover some old ground, while finding out a little about one another and themselves."-- Back cover.