Tom Swift Writer’s Notebook

Headline in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star: Double Victory. “Swift’s book,” the review says, “is an apt memorial to this almost-forgotten baseball hero.”

The Cleveland Public Library had a terrific photograph on display for the event on Friday — a shot of Charles Bender sitting on a chair being overwhelmed by fishing poles, golf clubs, bats, rifles, and so on. The tools of Bender’s ever-active life included more than one kind of ball. He was an avid bowler [...]