TOM SWYERS
AUTHOR
Tom Swyers is an attorney, hearing officer, former judge, and an award-winning author of three standalone novels in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thrillers Series. He lives with his family in Upstate New York.
Caged to Kill is the second book in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series and is set to be released on April 2, 2019. Convicted cop-killer Phillip Dawkins is running from the truth and thirty years of solitary confinement when he shows up at David Thompson’s door. Thompson must free Dawkins from his past before a killing beast is unleashed. But he may be too late . . .
The Killdeer Connection is the standalone first book in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series. David Thompson is on the run for a murder he didn’t commit. The book was a 2017 winner in Amazon’s international writing competition for Kindle Books . . .
Saving Babe Ruth is the standalone prequel to the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series. David Thompson goes to war against a greedy travel baseball promoter and risks it all when he tries to save kids’ baseball for the sandlot kids in town. Based upon a true story and with a foreword written by Babe Ruth’s grandson, the novel was the recipient of two Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2015 . . .
Blog
Look Behind the Mask: Oil, Gas Fracking and Youth Baseball are a Match Made in Baseball Heaven
The recent arrest of Robert Sanfilippo reveals a great deal about travel baseball. Going forward, I will occasionally draw upon on the Sanfilippo story to illustrate some points about youth sports and youth baseball. Today I'm going to comment on one aspect of the...
Hello South Park! You get what you deserve in running a community sports program or team . . .
There are a few truisms in creating a good community baseball (sports) program or in coaching a team. Here is one that sits near the top of the list: You may or may not get what you want, but you will almost always get what you deserve. File this thought away as I...
Have I got a story to tell . . .
Sit back and fasten your seat belt. You are about to go on multi-month ride through the world of youth baseball. There are the good guys, like the many volunteers who serve their community baseball programs, and there are the not-so good guys: the promoters and their...