NEW YORK — For nearly a decade after Mark Bavaro penned his first novel, Rough and Tumble the manuscript sat in the basement of his Boxford, Mass., home. It appeared destined to be read by no one other than Bavaro’s family members.
Periodically, the former NFL tight end who helped the Giants win Super Bowl titles after the 1986 and ’90 seasons would send out letters of inquiry attempting to get the book published.
“I got some initial interest, [but] once they found out it was a novel, they said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” Bavaro, 45, said Tuesday at the Sports Museum of America in Lower Manhattan. “It got frustrating as far as not being able to get the manuscript in the correct shape that I wanted it to be for people to take an interest in.”
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