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Earlier this week, my buddy Mark “Froggy” Carfagno and I had a meeting with a book agent. For those of you not familiar with the Frog, he was a groundskeeper for the Philadelphia Phillies for 33 years. His career came to an ugly end, which included an age discriminaiton suit, a couple of courtroom battles and an eventual settlement. Along the way, Frog suffered from some serious mental and physical problems related to his termination.

Anyway, Frog and I ran into each other about a year ago at a funeral. He told me he wanted to write a book but didn’t know where to start. He said he had started putting some thoughts down on paper and asked if I would take a look at it.

Turns out “Frog’s Bio” was about 10,000 words. It was all over the place, but it seemed like he had an interesting story to tell.

Since then, we’ve met about every two weeks. He would hand-write another chapter each time, and I would sit there while he translated his chicken scratch into something I could undertand. I figure he’s up to about 50,000 words by now. Continued

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