JOHN R. STANCZAK
AUTHOR | Nashville, TN
The Story of the Stanczak Brothers Baseball Team: Baseball's All Brothers World Champions (2021), Musings... An Old Man's Recollections of Life's Events (2022), The Adventures of Buzzy the Bee & His Friends (2023), America, of Thee I Sing (2023), Bare Knuckles Justice (2025), & Beware of a Trojan Horse (2026).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Stanczak has authored six books, The Story of The Stanczak Brothers Baseball Team: Baseball's All Brothers World Champions (2021), Musings... An Old Man's Recollections of Life's Events (2022), The Adventures of Buzzy the Bee & His Friends (2023), America, of Thee I Sing (2023), Bare Knuckles Justice (2025), and his latest work Beware of a Trojan Horse (2026). The first accounts for his father's and his uncles' accomplishments, on and off the baseball field. A venture undertaken at the constant pleadings of his children, who felt the story should be told.
After a brief layoff from writing, he felt compelled to try his hand at it again. In his new Musings undertaking, he provides a compilation of snippets centering around life's experiences.
He has no background that qualifies him to author a book, and the "D" and "C" grades he garnered in Elementary Grades and High School did not make him a likely candidate to endeavor to do so.
Understandably, baseball was always important in his family growing up. He even had tryouts for the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. He hit a homerun during the tryout, but unfortunately it was not enough to earn him a contract. But he had the opportunity to meet several famous ballplayers over the years, and even played against some of them, including the great Willie Mays. He played baseball in the army during the Korean Conflict, until he was seriously injured in a collision with another player while attempting to catch an infield
pop-up. That ended his baseball playing days.
Over the years since then, he has been a serial entrepreneur. He owned a bowling alley together with his brother Jim in their hometown of Waukegan, Illinois. Moving on from there, he owned a group of fast-food restaurants in northeast Arkansas, followed by a golf business in Florida, and a window treatment business in Tennessee. He finally retired at the ripe age of 82 and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with the love of his life.
Nearing the age of 96, he continues to write and hopes to release another book in the coming months!
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AVAILABLE BOOKS
The Story of the Stanczak Brothers Baseball Team: Baseball's All Brothers World Champions
The story of the most famous all-brother, semi-pro baseball team of all time began when Mary and Martin Stanczak were forced to flee their Polish homeland for America. They settled in Illinois where, like many immigrant families, they raised a large family-eleven children, ten boys and one girl. Those ten boys became a regional baseball powerhouse. This book recounts the history of the development of the Stanczak All-Brothers baseball team and details some of their more significant achievements, including their victory in the All-Brothers World Championship of 1929.
The book also includes some personal reminisces of the author from his own baseball-playing days and provides some highlights about the impact of the two World Wars on the game of baseball in the United States. It is a fascinating glimpse into three very American topics: the role of family, the immigrant experience, and how baseball brought Americans together.
Musings... An Old Man's Recollections of Life's Events
After a short period, Maggie came out with a tray of delectable and appealing-looking food. It emanated the most heavenly aroma that a hungry man could ever hope to inhale. She placed the food on the French Bistro table, which served as the main meal table. She glanced over at Stan, who appeared to be in deep thought. She proceeded to inquire as to what he was thinking. She received the usual answer, "Oh, nothing," which was not the fact, because his mind was focusing on a cold and wintry day on the shores of Lake Michigan. Why, on such a beautiful day as this, was his mind migrating to the wall of ice piled high by the cold wintry winds that caused the surging waves to freeze into a solid wall? It presented an eerie picture of an incident he and his friends experienced on a day in times past.
The Adventures of Buzzy the Bee & His Friends
The book introduces the young reader to the process that bees go through to produce honey. It also gives insight into some of life's problems, and lastly allows them to realize the importance of the role the bee plays in the production of our food supply.
America, of Thee I Sing
America, of Thee I Sing is a story about a rural Mississippi family's life prior to the onset of the Great Depression and up through the post war years of the 1950's. As the story progresses throughout that time period, historical facts are woven into the mystery that plagued Rose Barrow and her entire family. It will be found to be of interest to history buffs, mystery fans, and readers who cherish human interest stories, as well as horse lovers and fans of the Sport of Kings. It is a tribute to the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives, and to the ones that now lay their lives on the line in defense of our great country. Lastly, it is a homage to the United States of America, the land of the free and the brave. May God bless and preserve this great country of ours.
Bare Knuckles Justice
This is the story of a beleaguered family at the time Freddie, AKA Pug, was about to attain the age of eighteen. It relates how strong familial ties enabled them to survive the challenges with which they were presented. They mobilized, coordinated their efforts, and met the challenge head on with determination, grit, and with every fiber their bodies' possessed.
It is a story that has something for everyone. It's somewhat like a Tureen full of soup with the many nutritious vegetables required to make it. Just as the soup tends to quell the bodies' hunger, the story lends itself towards pleasing the psyche.
While the soup contains different ingredients that satisfy a vegetable soup gourmet, so does the interwoven material presented gratify the avid reader. It leads you from Freddie's early problem of securing employment to the families' entanglement with dangerous drug members. It moves on from there to portray the strong community and individual relationships that played a part in their daily lives.
Finally, it takes you on the interesting journey of Freddies quest to involve himself in a venture that was repulsive to him, but friendship for a dear and troubled friend Sgt. B. J. Whitney U. S. Army retired, made it necessary for him to participate in the sport.
I feel that what the book offers in the way of threatening activity, human interest, and fast paced Sports action it is a book to be enjoyed by young and old readers alike.
Beware of a Trojan Horse
Veteran Border Patrol agent Hayward Creed has seen what others refuse to acknowledge-criminals, traffickers, and terrorists slipping into the country under the cover of chaos and political paralysis. After years of personal loss and frontline experience, Creed helps form a covert citizen-led organization to expose threats hidden within America's borders.
What begins as a mission to protect victims quickly uncovers a far more dangerous reality: a coordinated, multinational infiltration targeting military bases, infrastructure, and civilian populations. As the group's successes grow, so does the enemy's retaliation-escalating into sabotage, assassinations, and nationwide unrest.
When Creed is brutally silenced, his warning becomes impossible to ignore.
Beware of a Trojan Horse is a gripping cautionary thriller about vigilance, patriotism, and the cost of complacency-reminding readers that the greatest threats are often the ones already inside the gates.
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