Stories From The Stoop - Sabellico, Tom
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In the 1950s and 60s, in Brooklyn, most homes contained a special place that is now pretty much extinct: the stoop, the steps that were the entranceway to the two-family and four-family homes that comprised that neighborhood. But it was so much more. It was where you hung out with your best friends, from the time you were first allowed to "go out and play." It was a place you listened to the radio play the songs you knew all the lyrics to. It was your "home field" for game of stoopball. It was where you sat to watch the stars and tried to find the Big Dipper. It was where all the neighborhoods…mehr

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In the 1950s and 60s, in Brooklyn, most homes contained a special place that is now pretty much extinct: the stoop, the steps that were the entranceway to the two-family and four-family homes that comprised that neighborhood. But it was so much more. It was where you hung out with your best friends, from the time you were first allowed to "go out and play." It was a place you listened to the radio play the songs you knew all the lyrics to. It was your "home field" for game of stoopball. It was where you sat to watch the stars and tried to find the Big Dipper. It was where all the neighborhoods got together on hot summer nights to eat Italian Ices because the non-air conditioned apartments were just too hot. It was where you became "blood brothers" with your best friend, and shared stories with him that you wouldn't tell anybody else. It was where you first fell in love, with the childhood sweetheart you you would never forget. And it was a place where stories of all those events and more were shared from generation to generation. This book brings back the magic of all of those special moments and more, through the eyes and memory of a boy who grew up in east New York, Brooklyn, at a time where the stoop was so much more than a set of steps.
Autorenporträt
Tom Sabellico graduated from St. Gabriel's Elementary school in June 1967. In his graduation book he noted that his career choices were to be an attorney or baseball player. Over the past 48 years he has blended those ambitions. He has been a youth sports coach since 1974, and founded Winning beyond Winning, whose mission was to employ former professional athletes to help guide young athletes and instruct them with respect to life skills. He was a charter member of the Nassau County sports Commission and is currently on the board of the Oyster Bay Sports Commission. He became an attorney in 1977 and still practices law. He is currently Special Counsel to the Town Attorney for the Town of Oyster Bay, on Long Island, where he lives with his wife, Paula, his children and his six grandbabies. In 2002, he co-wrote the autobiography of former New York Yankee, Ryne Duren, I can see clearly now. In 2006, he co-wrote The Black Aces, with Jim Mudcat Grant.