'The Letterman': Book by La Jollan and late friend tells of a teenage journey fueled by football

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For La Jolla resident Jack Blendinger, the recent publication of the book he co-authored with friend Jim Nicholson was literally a lifetime in the making.
“The Letterman: Tommy Stevens’ Memoir” is described as a portrait of a boy’s football-obsessed childhood through the wartime years of the 1940s and beyond, his burning athletic ambitions and the turn of events that forced him to reimagine his goals.
It is a semi-autobiographical tale. Stevens, in this case, is Nicholson, who died before the book was published.
“It’s about 90 percent reality; we only changed the names and places and added a bit to the characters,” Blendinger said. “But it’s mostly true and based on Jim’s life. Jim and I went to school together in Hollywood as children and both taught writing classes as adults, he in California and me in Mississippi. We decided to write a manuscript to bounce it off our students. They liked it, so we pursued getting it published.”

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