Book Signing Deferred Glory
By Joe D’Amodio | damodio@siadvance.com
Staten Island Sorts Hall of fame Board Member Dan Ingellis, who authored “Deferred Glory: Heroes of the Negro Baseball Leagues,” will hold a book signing for his first book on Sunday, June 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Leidy’s Shore Inn, located at 748 Richmond Terrace. Ingellis is a 74-year-old New Springville resident whose book was inspired by his late friend Andy Mele, the Advance’s Memories Columnist for a decade until his passing last summer. For years, Ingellis used to do research for Mele’s books.
The book is currently being sold on Amazon.com for $15.99 for the paperback and $9.99 for the Kindle edition. According to Amazon, “Deferred Glory: Heroes of the Negro Baseball Leagues” is about the lives, struggles and desire of negroes to one day become professional baseball players in the Major Leagues. During this period of their lives, these players while playing in the Negro League endured tough traveling to ballparks in cities both in the South and North in order to play baseball. They suffered through segregation mostly in the South both on and off the field. These men withstood horrible treatment because of their dreams to become Major League baseball players.
Eventually, these thirty-five players and executives were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Unfortunately many were inducted posthumously.
So stop by Leidy’s and purchase a book and get it signed or have the book in your possession signed by the author himself.
