4 with BJ ties among 'Best Local Books of the Year'

Beacon Journal reporter Phil Trexler, former BJ reporters Mark Dawidziak and Kymberli Hagelberg and Cinda Williams Chima, sister of the BJ's Mike Williams, are among the authors of "The Best Local Books of the Year," according to today's BJ story.

Trexler wrote "Ballparks: Yesterday & Today," about baseball stadiums.

Plain Dealer television writer Mark Dawidziak and Kent book dealer Mark Bauer authored "Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler."

Hagelberg's contribution is "Wicked Akron: Tales of Rumrunners, Mobsters and Other Rubber City Rogues."

University of Akron grad and former clinical dietician Chima's book is "The Gray Wolf Throne," about a princess who flees to escape a forced marriage and returns to claim her throne.

Click on the headline to read the BJ story.