The Town Book Store in Westfield will host a Meet & Greet with John Bartolick, author of Rise and Fall: The Construction and Destruction of a Baseball Dynasty on Saturday, May 14, 2011 from 2-4 PM. Built piece by piece by a maverick owner over a ten-year period, the Oakland Athletics rose from the very bottom of the American League to become the dominant baseball team of the 1970’s. Rise and Fall chronicles their amazing roller coaster ride to the top of their sport followed by their sudden fall from glory. The era’s most colorful and memorable characters such as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and the notorious Charlie Finley all come to life in a fun story written to please the casual baseball fan as well as diehard followers of the sport.
