[brian1961]

Hiya Chris. Glad you read EXPLOSION. Tell me, what did you honestly think of it? Isn't it a treasury of Mickey Mantle heroics and anecdotes? So many of those dear guys who shared their memories with the author have since passed away. Their superb re-telling of the events of Mick's home runs make them come alive again. The author took a subject, Mickey Mantle's home runs, and did such a good job without becoming boring or redundant. Of course, for us Mickey Mantle fans, his home runs are never redundant!!!!

Now to your question about my book. The father of one of my wife's guitar students happens to be a lawyer, a copyright attorney no less. He successfully got my book copyrighted, and so my next step will be finding a printing company to put it on a CD that can easily be slipped into a desk or laptop computer for viewing. While I wanted a printed version, of course, the second choice is very workable, and the pictures look fantastic!

Whilst I'm very embarrassed about how long this has taken and being ignored by the sought publisher, I am buoyed by the fact this is very do-able. I have not forgotten you, my friend; I will email you as soon as it's ready. At this point it looks like it will be $25-28 dollars, postpaid. For those that even hint the price might be high, it's the equivalent of a 480-page book. Though the pictures are relatively few, I've often said they're alone worth the price of the book. Then again, I've also maintained it is not a picture book but a treasury of stories and anecdotes and social history of how important baseball cards can be to a kid, and the lengths he will go to hunt down a card he feverishly desires. As adults, those feelings don't change; in fact, they intensify!!

By the way, what does hijacking a thread mean anyway?

Wishing you the very, very best Chris. --Brian Powell