Homer: The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey
The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey
By Lori Holcomb
Battle Creek Enquirer
A group of hearty, good ol’ boys, a coach that guided their way into baseball history books while battling behind the scenes for his job and a small town that backed them along the way – sounds like a great story, right?
Homer baseball coach Scott Salow thought so and when the Trojan skipper voiced the idea after a 2005 playoff victory, it stuck with Jeff Karzen. [Read more…]
By Mike Warner
Homer Index
Followers of Homer High School baseball will have a chance to relive the Trojans’ remarkable three-year run from 2004-06 that included a pair of state championships and a national winning streak in a book written by Battle Creek Enquirer sports reporter Jeff Karzen.
The book is entitled “Homer: The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey,” and includes a foreword from Detroit Free Press sports writer Mick McCabe. [Read more…]
By Tony Paul
Detroit News
Remember the Homer High baseball team, that talented batch of ballplayers from southwest Michigan that once won a national-record 75 consecutive games?
Well, now the program really has gone big-time, thanks to this week’s release of “Homer: The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey,” a 224-page book chronicling the days before, during and after the historic run of victories. [Read more…]
By Scott DeCamp
Kalamazoo Gazette
A native of suburban Chicago, Jeff Karzen never got much of a chance to witness small-town living, but he has long been intrigued by it.
“For some reason, the small-town thing has always been appealing to me,” said Karzen, a 28-year-old from Evanston, Ill., who is a sportswriter for the Battle Creek Enquirer. [Read more…]
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