A Book Signing & Launch Party will be held for former Highline High grad and baseball coach David Larson on Monday, June 27, from 5 – 7 p.m. at the Tin Theater.
Larson is a 1969 Highline grad, and this is his first novel.
Set in the year 1960, ‘The Scoreboard Keeper’ is a vibrant, nostalgic chronicle of boyhood, self-discovery and, of course…Baseball.
Larson has been a baseball player, coach, sportswriter, disc jockey, play-by-play/color commentator, PA announcer, scoreboard keeper, and is now a published author.
His passion for storytelling has led him to this latest pursuit, which he considers to be one of the most rewarding yet.
His 35-year coaching career began and ended at his alma mater, Highline High School, where over 50 of his players went on to college or professional baseball with two former Pirates ascending to the Major Leagues.
In addition to writing and coaching, he is often engrossed in fly fishing the Northwest’s spectacular rivers and streams.
After moving around the majority of his youth, David settled in the suburb of Normandy Park in 1980 with his wife Karen and their two children, Briana and Brandon. He is contemplating a return to the ballfield to one day coach his two sets of twin grand-daughters in the game that has featured so prominently in his life.
The Tin Theater is located at 923 SW 152nd Street in Olde Burien.