
Welcome. You’ll enjoy this ride.
Click a category. Browse. Read a bit here and there. Just stories meant to be told. Tom Alesia writes about the famous and infamous, the extraordinary and ordinary.
Beauty at Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild Times in Baseball's First Century
Based in Madison, Wisconsin, since 1993, he’s written for major daily newspapers, including ones in Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, San Diego, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis as well as USA Today and magazines from TV Guide to Indiana University Alumni.
Here’s a look at some of his favorites, many from Madison’s Wisconsin State Journal. Now working at McFarland’s Indian Mound Middle School, he loves when students begin lifelong reading and writing journeys.