![]() “The kid starts off on a farm somewhere, with meager beginnings… A little bit of baseball in there helps, too,” he said. Nappi said he thinks the story works well as a country song. ![]() The song is catchy, and this reporter has struggled to get it out of his head since first hearing it. MP Music House provided the Herald with a pre-release copy of the song, and the track’s emotional country vocals tell the Mickey Tussler story with guitar flourishes that evoke well-known country-rock acts like the Eagles and Neil Young. Petrone said he was drawn to the success of Nappi’s books. When he learned about the Mickey Tussler series, he told Nappi he wanted to turn it into a single. They stopped to talk to their neighbor Tom Petrone, a co-president at MP Music House, a songwriting and music publishing business. The track, called “Buckle Up and Dig In,” came about after Frank and his wife, Julia, also an OHS teacher, ran through their Massapequa neighborhood one day. 15, MP Music House will release a country music tune based on Nappi’s series. ![]() ![]() “I told them, ‘Eh, I’m not sure,’” he said, “but then there was the second one.” After that, there was a third and, before long, a TV movie. After Frank Nappi, an Oceanside High School literature teacher for 29 years, wrote “The Legend of Mickey Tussler,” a novel set in the late 1940s, about an autistic farm boy with a strong pitching arm who makes it to the major leagues, people asked Nappi about a sequel. ![]()
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