(But) he could maneuver, and if a pitcher was wild he could protect the pitcher from a lot of wild pitches.” He had quickness, but the good Lord didn’t give him that kind of speed to go with his quickness. He’d catch batting practice I think all day long if you let him. “But I do remember him, as a catcher, doing a very credible job. “I shall not talk too much as far as his baseball ability, being a hitter,” said Bill Freese, who retired from coaching Central High School baseball in the mid 1980s. White excelled more at sports, as a springboard diver at Davenport’s Central High School, as well as in football and baseball. Maybe it was a motivation for him at the time, I don’t know.”Īt least outwardly, Mr. You can almost hear a chill run up his spine.“That was the ’60s, and it wasn’t unusual for a teacher to embarrass a student in front of the whole class like that. Iossi wonders about that old English teacher. “I wonder if she knows he made it as a writer?” Mr.

His first Doc Ford novel, “Sanibel Flats,” was named one of the Hundred Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century by the American Independent Mystery Booksellers Association after it was published in 1990. His 17th novel in the Doc Ford series, “Deep Shadow,” will hit bookstores nationwide this month. But it wasn’t until his late 30s that he rose to the forefront of the American mystery/crime novel scene, where he began a successful and prolific career. White offers another installment in his Doc Ford series, nearly every spring, it is

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