Acclaimed Baseball Author to Speak at Dover Public Library

The Dover Public Library will host acclaimed author Will Bardenwerper on Tuesday, June 10 at 7:00 PM in the library’s Community Room, located at 525 N. Walnut Street in Dover. Bardenwerper will discuss his latest book, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America. A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America—written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in Batavia, New York.

With a vibrant, unforgettable cast of characters—from a librarian and her best friend whose relationship deepens with every summer evening they spend together in the bleachers, to the former hockey brawler-turned team owner who greets regulars while working the concession stand, to the iconoclastic writer with a contagious love for his struggling hometown—Bardenwerper’s Homestand exposes the beating heart of small town America, friends and neighbors coming together as the crack of the bat echoes in the summer twilight.

Author Will Bardenwerper has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s and other outlets and is the author of The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid. He served as an Airborne Ranger–qualified infantry officer in Iraq and was awarded a Combat Infantryman Badge and Bronze Star. Before working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he received a B.A. from Princeton and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

A book signing will follow the program. Copies will be available for purchase for $25. Sponsored by the Dover Public Library and The Bibliophile Bookshop, this program is free and open to all. For more information or to register, please call the Dover Public Library at 330-343-6123 or visit www.doverlibary.org.