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