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Contact - Meet the Author
John Erardi covered Tony Pérez through four decades, from his playing and managerial days to his Hall of Fame Induction and statue dedication. Erardi is the author or co-author of seven other sports books, two of them – Crosley Field and Big Red Dynasty – named Top Ten finalists by Spitball literary magazine as the best baseball books of the year, the latter of them a Top Five finalist for the Seymour Medal for best baseball history. John and wife, Barb, make their home in Crescent Springs, Kentucky, with their beloved rat terrier, Milkshake, now that their two grown children, Christopher and Gina, have moved on. Gina, a visual artist, did a map-illustration for "Tony Perez: From Cuba to Cooperstown." Christopher, a software engineer, designed this web site.
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Sparky Anderson, 1970.
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Davey Concepcion, spring training, 1970.
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(Left to right): Lee May, Tommy Helms, Pete Rose (far right), 1970 or 1971 regular season, Riverfront Stadium.
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Tony Perez, spring training, 1968.
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Leo Cardenas (left) and Chico Ruiz, spring training, 1965 - 1967.
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Victor showing some elusivity in the spring, 1967. He later played baseball for Xavier University, and 24 pro games at rookie-level Billings, Montana.
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Tony and Pituka take a stroll with Victor, spring training 1967.
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Tony gets Victor ready to for walk at spring training, 1967 (Note to Chris: this is actually the No. 4 attached photo, but it needs to run here in the 2-hole.)
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This is my favorite photo of Perez, 1968, 26 years old. He was just coming off his breakout season of 1967, when he won the MVP of the previous season's All-Star Game with his 15th-inning home run off Catfish Hunter. He and wife, Pituka, had become parents in May 1966, when Victor was born in Cincinnati.
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Tony receives fielding advice from another beloved Reds first baseman, Ted Kluszewski in spring training, 1972. "Big Klu," a fellow slugger from two baseball generations earlier, was the team's hitting instructor.
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Chico "Bench Me or Trade Me" Ruiz was Tony's first road roommate in the big leagues, 1965 - 1969. (Ruiz and Perez are two of the 200 Cuban-born major leaguers featured in a first-ever grouping of "thumbnail bios" in the book's appendix.)
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Left to right at the 1965 "Meet the Reds" luncheon in Cincinnati were Tommy Harper, Pete Rose, Vada Pinson, Don Pavletich, Tony Perez, and Frank Robinson.
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Tony met his future wife, Pituka, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in October 1964, when Tony was there to play winter ball. (Pituka is also a Cuba native.) Five months later, they honeymooned at Reds spring training in Tampa.
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The late Hall of Fame pitcher and U.S. Senator Jim Bunning (Kentucky) was an invaluable interview for the book, because in 1956-57 he was a Cuban Winter League teammate of the great Minnie Minoso, the idol of then 14-year-old Tony Perez.
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