ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> <title>Rick Swaine: Author of Books About Baseball's Unsung Heroes Homepage</title> <meta name="description" content="Homepage of Rick Swaine; author of Beating the Breaks: Major League Ballplayers Who Overcame Disabilities, The Black Stars Who Made Baseball Whole, and The Integration of Major League Baseball: A Team by Team History; member of the Society for American Baseball Research. 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Try <a href="puzzles/puzzles.html">Swaine's Baseball Crossword Puzzles</a>.</p> <p>Unlike most crosswords with a sports theme, these are full-size baseball-related crossword puzzles that meet newspaper standards. The puzzles can be solved on-line (interactively) or downloaded as a PDF file for printing.</p> <p>After more than a year of providing free baseball crossword puzzles, I am suspending posting of new puzzles after May 13, 2012, until the SABRNation inter-member communications function is fixed.</p> </td> <td width="25" class="block1">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" class="block3" height="10">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="3" class="block1" height="10">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <!--Content/Second Row--> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="table2"> <tr> <td colspan="5" height="20" class="block2">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="3" height="20" class="block3">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25" height="200" class="block2">&nbsp;</td> <td valign="top" class="block2"> <p align="left">Swaine's first book, <span class="title"><a href="books.html">Beating the Breaks: Major League Baseball Players Who Overcame Disabilities</a></span>, is a collection of profiles of the remarkable number of men who overcame serious obstacles to play major league baseball. <a href="books.html" class="more">More...</a></p></br> <p align="left" class="text">Swaine's second book, <span class="title"><a href="books.html">The Black Stars Who Made Baseball Whole</a></span> is the story of the integration of baseball, told through the lives and careers of the first generation of black major leaguers who made it happen. <a href="books.html" class="more">More...</a></p></td> <td width="25" class="block2">&nbsp;</td> <td width="130" class="block2"> <p><a href="order.html"><img src="images/book1.jpg" alt="Book Jacket of Beating the Breaks; link to ordering information" width="96" height="144" border="0" /></a></p></br> <p><a href="order.html"><img src="images/book2_small.jpg" alt="Book jacket of The Black Stars Who Made Baseball Whole; link to ordering information" width="96" height="137" border="0" /></a></p></td> <td width="25" class="block2">&nbsp;</td> <td width="25" class="block3">&nbsp;</td> <td width="225" valign="top" class="block3"> <p><strong>Quizzes</strong></p> <p class="text">The following quizzes highlight some of the players featured in Rick Swaine's books. How much do you know about these players?</p> <p><span class="title"><a href="quiz/quiz_ll_js.html">Integration Leaders and Laggards Trivia Quiz</a></span></p> <p><span class="title"><a href="quiz/quiz_bb_js.html">Quiz About Players with Disabilities</a></span> <p><span class="title"><a href="quiz/quiz_moderate_js.html">Quiz About First Generation of Black Stars - Moderately Difficult</a></span> <p><span class="title"><a href="quiz/quiz_difficult_js.html">Quiz About First Generation of Black Stars - Very Difficult</a></span></p> </td> <td width="25" class="block3">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" height="15" class="block2">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="3" height="15" class="block3">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <!--Footer--> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr valign="middle" class="bar"> <td width="25" height="35">&nbsp;</td> <td width="373" align="left"><span class="copyright">&copy;2004-2011 </span><a href="mailto:swaine@embarqmail.com" class="links2">Rick Swaine</a><span class="copyright"> - All Rights Reserved</span><br /> <span class="copyright">Web Design and Management Services by </span><a href="mailto:cjbetterley@msn.com" class="links2">Connie Betterley</a></td> <td width="25">&nbsp;</td> <td valign="middle" align="right" id="links3"> <a href="order.html">&nbsp;Ordering&nbsp;</a>| <a href="contact.html">&nbsp;Contact&nbsp;</a>| <a href="index.html">&nbsp;Home&nbsp;</a> </td> <td width="25">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <!-- Start of StatCounter Code --> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=515110; var sc_partition=3; var sc_security=""; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c4.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=515110&amp;java=0&amp;security=" alt="hidden hit counter" border="0" /></a> </noscript> <!-- End of StatCounter Code --> </body> </html>