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*Lance Storm has updated his commentary at Stormwrestling claiming that he will not be working any PWU events promoted by Matt Henstock in Canada this weekend. Here is a portion of what Storm wrote, "Mr. Matt Henstock is a complete and utter liar, whom has both lied to me and to any fans who are going to see a show in hopes of meeting me. He is a con man who does not deserve your business. He contacted me to do his shows and we agreed to terms for my appearance, he then lied to me about his shows being cancelled, and is in turn lying to you in claiming that I am still coming. It is dishonest promoters like Matt Henstock, who kill the Indy wrestling scene, by ripping of fans and destroying their faith in the Indy market. In my opinion Matt Henstock is the lowest level of life in the wrestling business as he is destroying it from with in."
*The following is promotional materia for Mick Foley's next book:
A powerfully moving new novel from Mick Foley, filled with the same heart and imagination that made Tietam Brown so distinctive.
The time is 1969. Scooter Riley is a regular kid growing up in the Bronx, on Shakespeare Avenue, just north of Yankee Stadium. His father, Patrick Riley, is a New York City cop; his beat is Harlem, streets that are getting rougher by the day in the wake of the assassinations of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy. Riley’s Spartan code of ethics and unwavering sense of duty to his neighborhood and the Force will carry him through; neither homicide nor drugs are going to get in his way, even if his wife does want them to get the hell out of the Bronx and for him to take a “safe” job somewhere in the suburbs. He’s happy with things as they are and wants to make time stand still, going to Yankee games in the neighborhood as he did growing up (as a boy he’d waited for hours to meet Joe D.—the great Yankee Clipper—and collected two decades of Yankee autographs of Yogi, Larson, Lopat, Mantle, too; on yearbooks, scorecards, ticket stubs, Spaldeens). Riley wants his son, Scooter—named after Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto, MVP, 1950—to have a childhood just like his own.
Scooter doesn’t get the same thrill his father gets from going to Yankee Stadium and watching the players “punch it through the hole,” or “spray it all around.” He loves his father but yearns for his own style—in baseball and in life.
His grandfather, a fireman for thirty years and horribly scarred, harbors a dark secret that has caused a deep rift between him and Scooter’s dad. Scooter’s grandfather sees the game of baseball as the game of life itself—to him all of life’s great lessons are explained in baseball lore, and he teaches Scooter to play the game in a way that’s different from how his father wants him to play. He teaches Scooter as well that life can be defined in a few extraordinary moments—moments of courage, of cowardice—when the ability to act, or not, defines who you are, and who you will become.
Into this world, a world that becomes increasingly less kind to Scooter, the defining moments his grandfather has warned him about come at a rapid pace, and as the years pass and Scooter grows up, it is through baseball, and its timeless rhythms, that the defining moments in Scooter’s life are played out—and that the boy he is now, and the young man he will become, are shaped.
“An exuberant, complex and dare I say it, sensitive portrayal of a young man coming of age during turbulent times. Mick Foley has a long career ahead of him as a novelist.” —Jonathan Kellerman
“In turns ashcan realist and operatic, lurid and heartfelt, sentimental and hard-nosed, Scooter is an absorbing tale of one kid’s growth into young manhood via sports; sports as an instrument of love, of revenge, of celebration and of destruction. It also, most compellingly, offers an athlete’s contemplation of pain, and the unique brand of salvation that can come of its forbearance.” —Richard Price, author of Samaritan.
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