Wednesday, February 26, 2014

1977 Texas City Stars

1977 Texas City Stars


The Texas City Stars, a professional baseball team in the quickly doomed 1977 Lone Star League, were owned by Van Schley.  An independent minor league team composed of cast-offs from Major League organizations and undrafted college players, the Stars played all but two home games in Texas City's rickety Robinson Stadium (one "home game" was played in Beaumont and another in Galveston).

The Texas City Stars manager was former San Francisco Giant and California Angel "Dirty Al" Gallagher, who, necessarily, occasionally, wrote himself into the line up or pitched.  

Dirty Al Gallagher


Complete Roster of the 1977 Texas City Stars:

1B  James "Nert" Mills
2B  Steve Verban
2B  Jeff Gerwitz
3B  Jim Gattis
3B  Steve Wendtland
3B  Gary Long
SS  Rick Holoubek

OF  Ricky Hill
OF  Rhod "The Stork" Wallace
OF  Gary Thweatt
OF  Rick Seid
OF  Al Gallagher
OF  Steve Greene

C    Gary Rump

P     Mike Brooks
P     Donald Gilbert
P     Jim Halgas
P     John Harness
P     Ricky "Snake" Martin
P     Jeff McKay
P     Jack Neimeyer
P     Arlandis Prince
P     Jim Quinn
P     Phil Roddy
P     Bob  Roth
P     Gary Sarno
P    Anthony Weiler


Manager             "Dirty Al" Gallagher
Coach                  Red Shuttleworth
Pitching Coach    Ron Toenjes

Franchise Owner    Van Schley






Mike Brooks




"DirtyAl" Gallagher




John Harness



Ricky Hill




Rick Holoubek




Rick "Snake" Martin




Jeff McKay




"Nert" Mills




Jim Quinn




Phil Roddy




Bob Roth




Gary Rump




Gary Sarno




Rick Seid




Red Shuttleworth




Gary Thweatt



Steve Verban




Rhod "The Stork" Wallace




Steve Wendtland




Steve Wendtland and Jim Gattis




Jeff McKay, Red Shuttleworth, John Harness




Rhod "The Stork" Wallace, Red Shuttleworth,
and "Dirty Al" Gallagher




1977 Texas City Stars Poster
with Home Game Schedule

Friday, February 21, 2014

FOR HOURS NOW: A Chapbook Poetry Anthology



For Hours Now

a chapbook poetry anthology featuring

Jeffrey C. Alfier

Tom Clark

Morgan Harlow

Dave Kelly

Red Shuttleworth

Larry D. Thomas


For Hours Now is published in a limited (49 copies) edition by Bunchgrass Press.  To acquire a chapbook, correspond with one of the included poets.




Sunday, February 16, 2014

BORDERLINE: A Red Shuttleworth Chapbook



Borderline

five poems

Red Shuttleworth


Red Shuttleworth
Galveston County, Texas, 1976



Borderline,
a five-poem Red Shuttleworth chapbook published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition (25 copies) corrals five poems:
Trinket Glare

That Isn't What This Is

There Long?

The Borderline

Best Offer


Red Shuttleworth
(Borrowed Monte Carlo)
Columbia Basin, Washington, 2013





Monday, February 10, 2014

RAPTURE AND PASSAGE: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook



Rapture and Passage

two poems

Red Shuttleworth


Rapture and Passage, a (limited edition) Bunchgrass Press chapbook, presents two Red Shuttleworth poems:


Rapture

and

Passage of Philip Seymour Hoffman.