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The Bristol Bombers
A Memoir
“The Bristol Bombers: The Legend of the ‘Hawk'” is a heartfelt, nostalgic love letter to small-town amateur baseball and the fleeting magic of one’s mid-twenties. James D. Sullivan warmly chronicles the 1994 season of a ragtag Rhode Island team of unforgettable characters The Franchise, Holy White Lobster, Love Child, Forrest, and more whose antics, banter, and camaraderie leap off the page. Blending humor, raw emotion, and life lessons, it’s less about box scores and more about friendship, dreams, and the bittersweet realization that youth slips away faster than a summer. Springsteen’s “Glory Days” in book form funny, tender, and deeply relatable.
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The Bristol Bombers
A Memoir
“Once upon a time, there was a Holy White Lobster, a Love Child, a Franchise, and a guy named Forrest and there were others, and they were led by a fearless Coach who resided in a quaint little town by the Bay called Bristol, that gathered every year to play the game that they love, Baseball.” And thirty years later, sitting in a parking lot in Beacon, New York, I watched four kids in a ’68 Camaro scream “Rosalita” at the top of their lungs…and I smiled. Same story, different town. The Bombers live on.