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During his long baseball career, Del Wilber caught for the Red Sox, Cardinals and Phillies; managed 6 minor league teams; scouted for 4 major league clubs; and served as third base coach for the Senators. Written by his son, Rick, this elegant biographical memoir recounts Del Wilber’s life from the unique perspective of a son who grew up in major league dugouts, experienced the joys and hardships that go along with having a big-league dad, and served as his father’s family caregiver as he became terminally ill. The result is a poignant look at the major leaguer’s life and the emotionally exasperating ordeal of caring for a dying parent.
You can purchase My Father’s Game on Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com or at the publisher’s website: http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2984-4
“Rick Wilber’s powerful memoir is a work of uncommon courage. In it he cares for demanding, ailing parents while trying to be the best husband, father, and teacher he can be. It’s an impossible task, it turns out, and as he relives the frustration, pain, and anger, we watch fascinated as the drama plays out. My Father’s Game is an honest, affecting book that will touch you deeply.”—Peter Golenbock, author of Wrigleyville, Bums, and Red Sox Nation
“This is a stunning book. Rick Wilber’s dead-level, achingly honest account of what he learned about himself, his father, and one of our central national mythologies should be read by every baseball fan and would be helpful to everyone who takes on the role of caregiver. My Father’s Game abounds with faith, heartbreak, love, insight, and honor”—Peter Straub, award-winning author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Koko and In the Night Room
“As one of his many writing protégés, I know something about Rick Wilber’s father-son relationships. But I never knew about the one that shaped his life, strengthened his heart, honed his soul. I never knew about, My Father’s Game, the story of how a simple nine-inning game could fashion a bond that would last two men a lifetime. I am honored to have been of Rick Wilber’s students. While reading My Father’s Game I realize I am learning from him still”—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Sports Columnist and panelist on ESPN’s Around the Horn.
Rick’s novel The Cold Road (Forge, 2003) was said by best-selling author Peter Straub to be, “Horror for adults, horror that exists beyond category and offers all the richness of character, subtlety of nuance, and devotion to storytelling that good readers always look for but all too seldom find.”
Rick’s novel To Leuchars (Wildside, 2000), which gathered together a novel’s worth of his previously published S’hudonni stories, was called a “minor-classic” on SFSite.com.
To Leuchars can be purchased at Amazon.com or at the publisher’s website, at: http://www.wildsidebooks.com/search.asp?keyword=rick+wilber&search=GO
Peter Holman would become a central figure in a power struggle of Galactic proportions, a man whose fate dictated the fates of worlds. And in the end he’ll pay a price for his ambition that no man could bear to pay.
“Wilber is a matchless storyteller. To Leuchars is science fiction with a heart.” — Jack McDevitt, award-winning author of Infinity Beach.
“Science fiction at its unnerving, thought-provoking best, To Leuchars throws a laser-sharp light on our past, present and future.” — Ben Bova, bestselling author of Venus.
His collection of baseball short stories and essays, Where Garagiola Waits, was a finalist for the Dave Moore Award for Most Important Baseball Book of 1999.
Magazine Feature Writing has been a standard college textbook for students interested in writing for magazines since it first came out in 1994. The book is currently out of print and Rick hopes to write a new edition sometime soon. The book is available through Amazon.com and other online booksellers.
Modern Media Writing, co-authored with Dr. Randy Miller, a colleague of Rick’s at the University of South Florida, is a college textbook for beginning media writers in Mass Communications and Journalism departments. The authors are at work on a new edition of the popular textbook.