Downey's Lorine Parks named judge for best baseball book

DOWNEY — Downey resident Lorine Parks has been invited by Spitball Magazine to be a judge in their annual CASEY Award for the best baseball book published this year, “one of three people to determine the greatest honor the author of a baseball book can receive.”

Parks’s poem, “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, for Tyler Skaggs,” was accepted by Spitball, and was recently published by the Patriot in the Poetry Matters column.

Each year the editors of Spitball, the baseball literary magazine, pick the top 10 or 12 books as nominees, and then the publishers send the judges copies of the books in November to read and review.  Awards are announced in January 2021. 

Parks is poetry editor for the Patriot and curated a monthly poetry salon for six years at Epic Lounge and Stay Gallery for the Downey Arts Coalition.