An obscure Packer’s 1996 Super Bowl ring hits pay dirt again during recent auction
Lamont Hollinquest’s stunning, diamond-packed Super Bowl XXXI ring was sold for $31,200. And Hollinquest gets nothing.
Tom Alesia
March 1, 2021
New writing
Baseball’s ‘Beauty’: The colorful history of an unlikely Hall of Famer
Dave Bancroft, 80, listened to the caller and heard the stunning good news. “Oh, my God,” Bancroft responded. “That’s the nicest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”
Tom Alesia
January 25, 2021
The Lightest Inspiration (my most prized possession)
Our lives changed the day before when my health sank like a brick in a kiddie pool.
Tom Alesia
October 2, 2020
Ranking myself as early distance learning begins
At the nursing home, we weaved our way through endless corridors and countless rooms, most blaring TVs of black-and-white movies or ranting cable newscasts.
Tom Alesia
April 6, 2020
(Middle school memoir) Wrigley Field Was My Babysitter
Wrigley Field photo by Adam Romanowicz.
Tom Alesia
March 5, 2020
The Great Unknown (short play)
The village features a lake no one sees clearly unless you eat at the window of the Green Lantern.
Tom Alesia
November 8, 2019