{"id":25649,"date":"2013-08-31T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=25649"},"modified":"2013-08-31T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T17:52:53","slug":"my-interview-with-andrew-mele-author-of-the-boys-of-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/my-interview-with-andrew-mele-author-of-the-boys-of-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"My Interview with Andrew Mele, Author of The Boys of Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-7746330532822981156\">Hey baseball fans!<\/p>\n<p>I recently had the honor of interviewing Andrew Mele, the author of the book,&#160;<i>The Boys of Brooklyn<\/i>. The book is about how baseball was very important to Brooklynites back in the days of&#160;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/robinja02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Robinson<\/a><\/strong>,&#160;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reesepe01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pee Wee Reese<\/a><\/strong>&#160;and&#160;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/snidedu01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Snider<\/a><\/strong>. It explains how a lot of baseball players from Brooklyn played in a park called the Parade Grounds, a park that hosted many baseball games for kids of all ages. Anyway, it was a great book and a really fun, interesting read. If you would like to see the interview on my YouTube channel, just&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jIq17ZnlBmA\">click here<\/a>. And I hope you check out the book too.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FsSU_0Z2kqs\/UiIpJqRlTCI\/AAAAAAAABm4\/YkmldsndWhc\/s1600\/photo-4.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FsSU_0Z2kqs\/UiIpJqRlTCI\/AAAAAAAABm4\/YkmldsndWhc\/s320\/photo-4.JPG\" width=\"201\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Thanks for watching the interview. I hope you enjoyed it and check back in a couple of days for more of &#8220;all the buzz on what wuzz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey baseball fans! I recently had the honor of interviewing Andrew Mele, the author of the book,&#160;The Boys of Brooklyn. 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