New Book Now Available – SOMETIMES ORANGE IS ALMOST GOLD
BOOK RELEASE PARTY – Thursday – October 9, 123 Pleasant Street with Music – Food- Chico Softball Merchandise – Season-Ending Awards Ceremony WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW – Reviewed by Warren Maxwell, September 24, 2025 Hilarious, warmhearted, bite-sized stories of a cult softball team from West Virginia “…a dash of the tall tale, […]
NEW BOOK ALERT – Sometimes Orange is Almost Gold: Morgantown’s Misfits of the Diamond
***AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER*** Authors: Jim Antonini and Suzanne Reynolds Book Summary: This book captures the colorful and hilarious exploits of a group of orange-clad outcasts on their futile two-decade quest for softball glory. Part softball team. Part social club. Part mythology. But mostly failure. Nobody loses better than the Chico’s Bail Bonds softball team–the forever […]
I’M NOT JIM ANTONINI…
After reading a couple of my books, an old friend from my WVU pharmacy school days reached out to me. He said my books opened a ‘floodgate of memories’. We messaged back and forth on Facebook a few times and caught up on each other’s lives. Then not having heard from him for a couple […]
WILD BILL RIDES AGAIN: Successful book launch + positive reviews
In late September 2023, Pump Fake Press celebrated the release of Jim Antonini’s latest book, WILD BILL RIDES AGAIN, at a packed house at Decker’s Creek Yacht Club in Morgantown, WV. It was fun night of friendship, laughter, and music by Andy Tuck ( tuckmusic.com ). We were overwhelmed by the positive response to the […]
Pump Fake Press is everywhere, man…
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What is the story about the Chico Bail Bonds softball team and the Olivia Newton-John trophy behind the bar at 123 Pleasant Street in Morgantown, WV?
This is a question I have been asked numerous times in the past several weeks. Background The Players: Chico’s Bail Bonds is the world’s most beloved softball team from Morgantown, West Virginia. Started over twenty-five years ago, they are a raggedy collection of middle-aged men from all walks of life whose love for softball is […]
When our Chico’s softball team almost became famous…
Morgantown’s ‘Bad News Bears’: Chico’s Bail Bonds More Social Club Than Softball Team – West Virginia Public Broadcasting : West Virginia Public Broadcasting (wvpublic.org)