Author Event with Chuck Spinner/Look What Sports Did to This Little Kid!

Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an author event with Chuck Spinner, to celebrate the release of his newest book, Look What Sports Did to This Little Kid!: A Baby Boomer's Journey Through the Golden Age of Sports, on Sunday, June 22nd at 2:00 pm in our Naperville store.

Event Format

We will begin checking you in approximately 30 minutes before the start time. After a presentation and Q&A with the author, the line will form in numbered order with the following guidelines:

• Posed photo with your camera taken by our staff

• There is a limit of 2 books from home to be signed (unless otherwise stated)
  

• There is a limit of 1 personalization of the new book only (unless otherwise stated)

Pre-registration is required for this event because space is limited.

More about Look What Sports Did to This Little Kid!:  

The Baby Boom generation (those born between 1946-1965) are starting to reach three quarters of a century in age. Their youth came after the Great Depression and World War II; and Americans were longing for fun activities that sports provided. Baby Boomers grew up just as television was being welcomed into average households. The youth of this generation were the first to see sports events live on TV rather than listening to them on radio or reading about them in newspapers. This new visual medium enabled this generation to react together immediately to the same athletic competition. This autobiography presents a nostalgic look at the author’s reactions to the sports events that many of his readers also witnessed. This work is also a history book whose stories detail events in a personal, readable, enjoyable way. Baby boomers and sports fans in general will have fun exploring such enticing chapters such as: How the author’s uncle became a pro wrestler to pay his way through law school. Meeting a boyhood sports idol 40 years later. Two grandsons ride in a pace car with their Papa. Meeting the only major league ambidextrous pitcher. The first T-ball game played on “artificial turf”! Author plays international basketball game in Senegal. Author beats future Supreme Court justice in basketball! Larry Bird ruins local TV sports broadcast! Author participates in prison basketball game. Running with the “Vaulting Vicar”, Bob Richards! Author’s wife meets Michael Jordon….almost! The Detective Wrestling Dentist! Golfing on the Moon! Vietnam and a remembered fallen teammate. Patrice meets Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin. The most comfortable pole vault landing pit ever! Author Spinner was prompted to write his book after reading this quote from Toni Morrison: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

About the Author: 

Chuck Spinner was born (1946) and raised in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb 28 miles west of Chicago. Spinner graduated from Conception Seminary College in 1968, but left his seminary studies at that point and began a 33-year teaching career in the Cleveland, Ohio area (Parma and Shaker Heights).  He completed his Master’s degree in 1973 from West Virginia University. 

In January of 2008, Spinner would publish A Book of Prayers: To the Heavens from the Stars.  The book was the result of five years of effort compiling the favorite prayers from 118 celebrities.  The book was recommended nationally by the Catholic Digest (2008), Sharing the Victory (2008), and Momentum (2009) magazines.  The author gave many talks and book signings, the most enjoyable being the two at Notre Dame University’s Hammes Bookstore before the Purdue (2008) and Navy (2009) football games.

Chuck’s second book, The Tragedy at the Loomis Street Crossing, deals with the tragic April 25th, 1946 train wreck that occurred just a block from his family’s house in Naperville, Illinois.

In the fall of 2023 Chuck released his third book, Look What Sports Did To This Little Kid!  A Baby Boomer’s Journey Through the Golden Age of Sports.  The book is an autobiography centered on how sports have influenced Spinner’s life.  The book will be of special interest to the author’s fellow baby boomer generation.  In addition, the book also details historical events of the era in a more readable, enjoyable style.  Chuck is pleased with the cover created by his nephew, J.D. Spinner and believes that readers will enjoy scanning the unique QR codes on the front and back covers to hear commentaries about the book.

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