Author

Sean Patrick
SEAN PATRICK was born in Cleveland, where his widowed mother raised him in an Irish Catholic neighborhood of tenement apartment buildings following World War II. He retired from a career in law enforcement and began a second career writing Patrick’s Corner in 1987.
I have often wondered why stickball was never considered a sport with Olympic possibilities. In spite of the variety of organized sports my brothers, friends, and l were involved with, stickball was really the great neighborhood pastime,…
Bloke, the Seaman
Bloke used to brag that he could take any old motor apart and put it back together so that it would still work. Usually he was right. Once in a while he had to admit that he didn’t do what he bragged about, but those times were few and far…