Who's your Tiger?
The ultimate baseball book—1020 pages of your favorite baseball players' adventures. Dean's "colossal achievement" (Detroit News' David Good) celebrates primarily 50s Hall of Fame icon Al Kaline, millennial #1 superstar Miguel Cabrera, top batting-average hitter of all time Ty Cobb, and Bronx-born slugger Hank Greenberg.
After fifty years, including forty-something of Dean teaching History of Rock at the college level, Dean decided it was time for another Rock Revolution. Sparked by gleaming arrays of exclusive photos from the inner circle of rock concerts, as well as standbys like NYC's Photofest (plus a few of Dean's own impromptu pix), The Rock Revolution Rolls On covers the whole teeming domain of a century of rock and roll.
*This vintage Rock Revolution 1967 cover by Phil Frank will comprise a portion of designer Jeremy Dean's new Rock Revolution Rolls On cover.
The music never died. Writer Maury Dean shows that Buddy Holly and the Crickets are the most important rock-band pioneers of all time. Holly's Crickets influenced (perhaps invented) the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the whole concept of a rock and roll band. This'll Be the Day is foremost a love story between Texan singer/songwriter Holly and his bride Maria Elena. This 2nd edition features a Cricket's introduction and 100 additional pages.
Glory Days—Still Running Against the Wind is YOUR new guide to the World of Running. It opens up new roads and vistas and adventures and opportunities for you to succeed in running—NOW. It's for all runners everywhere. From the back of the pack to the mammoth middle, to the front lines of racing, this Glory Days trip will take you from the early 1970s running boom and America's Olympic quests to the local 5K and 10K and marathon arenas, where we all chase gold-medal dreams. Writers Maury Dean and Coach Ed Melnik survey the best runners in two major markets over half a century (New York & Michigan/Ohio), roughly one-eighth of the American running scene, with adventures in the other seven-eighths from Alaska to California to Florida and virtually everywhere else. Dean's memoir? If you're looking for a "Couch Potato to 5K Winner" theme, including five-year age groups from 19 to 90+, and you're looking to expand your own "Runner's World," try this actual story of a kid who couldn't earn a varsity cross-country letter—hitting the national Top Ten in 5K and 10K distances in his fifties. Glory Days is a celebration of ALL levels of running, and the likely winner is you.
You're a Rock fan, and most of your favorite Rock Stars of FIVE generations are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Many of YOUR favorites, however, are not IN there yet—and not just because of the 25-year Eligibility Rule.
Fans like you are now allowed to vote, due to the Hall changing their Induction requirement rules, around 2020. It's no longer a decision for just varsity industry execs or rock critics, or rock superstars already in there. Here's where YOU, and your favorite band or recording artists, come in! Through the Front Door! For the first time in the Hall's 39-year induction history, YOU (the fan) now owns the vital vote, along with the usual in-group of establishment executives and superstars. How? Check out Rock the Hall. Our new cutting-edge book on YOUR rocking roster likely includes your personal favorites. And we list the Swift batch of singers not eligible until 2050, but with the power to someday make it easily to the Hall. Our Rock the Hall book COVER is by Nine Days' piano man Jeremy Dean [Maury Dean's son {#1, Summer 2000, "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)},"--Google it). Does writer Maury Dean boost his son's band (eligible THIS year) for the Rock Hall? What a question.
You will likely learn 789 things about the Rock Hall you didn't know yet, and valuable info about great possible inductees you may already love. You'll also get unique news about who may have come up with the Hall Concept Idea 20 years BEFORE the first Induction Class of 1986 (including Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and one famous Soul Brother with Famous Flames, who you'll discover in the pages 962-966 Zone). It's a good idea to pick up a six-pack of Rock the Hall books for your friends, lovers, and rock and roll relatives, over the holidays. Cheers. And Rock On.
Following up our 2021 epic Glory Days 1970-2021, Running Wild is basically a ROAD RACE RECAP 2024-2026 of Long Island distance running (a mile to a 26.2M marathon), with a few Michigan 5Ks tossed in for good measure. In colorful bold print, Dean reverses age groups, to favor OLDER distance runners. Running Wild pictorializes the whole sensational stampede of thousands of current Long Island age-group achievers. Maxwell Hunter book covers usually feature the best graphic artistry of the Deans' son Jeremy Dean, whose piano-man expertise and background vocals enhance one of your favorite #1 millennial rockin' hit records—Nine Days' 2000 double-platinum "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" [Stream it, along with 222,222,222+ other worldwide rock fans]. Literally hundreds of age-group stars, and midpack L.I. runners, appear on Jeremy's Beatle-ish Sgt. Pepper multitude-celebrity covers. Very likely Jeremy features YOUR picture. Running Wild also offers road running safety tips (run on LEFT in USA) and colorful stories, which Dean experienced and learned from his 1234+ road races. At age 50, writer Maury Dean placed 8th in the USA in the Male 50-54 division in both the 5K (16:53) and 10K (35:11) distances, but gets slower and slower faster and faster now.
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Maxwell Hunter Publishing began late in the last millennium, as a consortium at Long Island New York's Suffolk College. Maxwell Hunter was inspired by writers, many from Suffolk College, such as: Tony DiFranco, the O. Henry Award best-selling novels and short stories, such as The Streets of Paradise; non-fiction brilliant non-fiction writer of Larry Epstein (Princeton Press's Mixed Nuts, & The Haunted Smile); Ed Eriksson and his Off-Broadway plays; poetry and mystery novels of Chuck Anderson; Beat-Generation-infused poetry of boxing and baseball, Freddy Byrnes; poets Vince Clemente, Bill O'Brien, Matt Rodman, and David Axelrod; and writing professors with hit books like John Gill, Sam Ligon, and Feliz Turhan. Dr. Maury Dean, an English and Rock Music Professor at Suffolk and University of Michigan Hopwood Writing Award Winner, united with Maxwell Hunter after his Algora Publishers (NYC) national 2003 Rock 'N' Roll Gold Rush.
Maxwell Hunter now specializes in all forms of popular literature, from biographies to sports to music to Road Race Recaps. On his way to becoming Maxwell Hunter's primary contributor in the 2020+ zone, Dean's booklist includes: Maury's well-known 2009 life of 1st-year Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Buddy Holly This'll Be the Day, whose band the Crickets inspired the Beatles. Crickets' lead singer 1960-1965 Jerry Naylor provides a fantastic This'll Be the Day Foreword, helping de-mystify the legend of the "Day the Music Died." Dean's 2017 baseball opus is his 999-page Tiger tribute Who's Your Tiger--The Detroit Tigers' Four Greatest Hitters of All Time (Ty Cobb, Al Kaline [Dean's boyhood hero], NYC's Hank Greenberg, and Miguel Cabrera)—Dean and his family lived Maury's first three decades in Michigan, where he began his teaching at Monroe Community College near Detroit.
Dean's The Rock Revolution (1966, Edmore, Detroit) is included in Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archives, as the first Rock History book ever (144 modest pages in 17 days of frantic longhand scribbling, while skipping Wayne State Univ. grad classes in Detroit). Its "big brother" is epic 2018 golden-year Maxwell Hunter retrospective The Rock Revolution Rolls On, a sympathetic portrait of your favorite rock stars of all time. Dean never even READ a 1000+ page book until he was 19, but three of these books bombard the 1000-page barrier with too much good information. You get more than your money's worth. The Rock Revolution Rolls On is a tribute to everyone who dedicated his or her life to rock and roll, from Elvis and Buddy and the Beatles to Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny (not BUGS Bunny, Maury's 'wascally-wabbit' running hero).
Dean and Greater Long Island Running Club Coach and chief "Stat Man" Ed Melnik teamed up for their 2021 Long Island Running odyssey, Maxwell Hunter's Glory Days: Still Running Against the Wind. Echoing the great 1980s anthem hits of Jersey bard Bruce Springsteen, and Michigan's troubadour Bob Seger, Glory Days is Maury's memoir about Long Island's 50+ year adventures in road running--one of America's top five participation sports. Therefore, it's about time champion runners got some of the glory of our national baseball, football, basketball, and hockey stars (if not the money). Glory Days from 2021 is still available for you—followed by 2026's Running Wild's 2024-2026 update Road Race Recap.
From rock and roll to running amok, or running wild, we also feature Thanksgiving 2024's Rock the Hall: 123+ Greatest Rock Hall Recommendations (see burly blurb nearby). Does Maxwell Hunter's Maury Dean boost his son Jeremy's band Nine Days (eligible this year) for the Rock Hall? What a question. Jeremy switched our Rock the Hall title from "Nominations" to "Recommendations," because Cleveland's Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame official Nominations come from industry giants. Regular fans' roles are significant, but not as important as the inside clout of the Hall's regular system.
Every Maxwell Hunter book you choose you'll find entertaining. They also may help you win your first 3rd-prize age 40-49 trophy or medal at the local 5K 3.1-mile race, when the Jan. 2026 ZERO weather and two-foot snowdrifts slither down the drain. Or pen your first zillion-selling rock and roll masterpiece. We also thank you for your interest in increasing your real-copy bookshelves with lively Maxwell Hunter adventures and dynamic book covers and hundreds of colorful action photos AND Race Results inside, for everyone in your family.
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