AUTHOR VERDEGAN’S ANNOUNCES SIX-DATE, ‘5-10-32 – MCBRIDE, PARKER & ANVELINK’ 2021 HOLIDAY BOOK TOUR

(Verdegan’s seventh book tour hosts dates in Shawano, Outagamie & Brown Counties)

(Dunbar, WI) August 26, 2021 – Motorsports author and Green Bay, Wis. native Joe Verdegan has announced a six-date book tour in December 2021 to promote his seventh book titled “5-10-32 – McBride, Parker & Anvelink” which will feature the trio of Northeast Wisconsin dirt late model icons. 

 

Those icons featured in the book are M.J. McBride from Shawano, Pete Parker from Kaukauna and Terry Anvelink from Navarino. 

 

“5-10-32 – McBride, Parker & Anvelink” will be the fourth book Verdegan has penned with Pedal Down Promotions of Manitowoc, Wis. The book launch is set for Saturday, Dec. 4 from noon to 3 p.m. at Lenny’s Tap in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

 

From there the book tour travels through a handful of communities in Shawano and Outagamie Counties. On Tuesday, Dec. 7, the tour stops at the Lighthouse Bar & Grill in Shawano, Wis. (one of McBride’s longtime sponsors) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

 

Two nights later, Thursday Dec. 9 the tour swings into Anvelink’s hometown of Navarino for a stop at Peppermint Josie’s from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.Peppermint Josie’s is formerly Walt’s Bar, which was a longtime sponsor of Anvelink’s.

 

On Saturday, Dec. 11, Hustle Inn in Seymour, Wis. will host a signing from noon to 3 p.m. The local watering hole has always been a longtime favorite of Seymour race fans and drivers alike.

 

The tour’s fifth stop is set for Club 117 in Bonduel, Wis. Thursday, December 16 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Club 117 is a supporter of local racing including both Shawano Speedway and second-generation racer Nick Anvelink.

 

The six-date tour wraps up where it started in Green Bay Saturday, Dec. 18 at Bosse’s News Stand from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.      

 

All three drivers earned extremely popular fan followings beginning with McBride. The Shawano  speedster’s career began in 1965 at his home track Shawano Speedway. McBride would go on to battle in USAC stock car competition in the early 1970s and eventually would wind up dominating at his hometown half-mile, bagging five straight track titles in the 1980s and still winning frequently into the ‘90s and into the 2000s era. McBride, who would wind up winning 13 track championships in all, was ushered into Shawano Speedway’s Hall of Fame in 2007.

 

Parker, from Kaukauna, Wis., began his career in drag racing after a stint in the military. It didn’t take long for the Eagle River native to explode onto the dirt late model scene. Parker began winning features and track titles frequently in the late 1970s and for the next few decades. Parker spread his wings in the 1980s chasing big-money specials throughout the United States, including the long-defunct National Dirt Racing Association (NDRA) circuit. After an estimated 450 feature wins at both the local and regional level and a pair of WISSOTA late model national crowns, Parker was inducted into the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in 2006.

 

Anvelink won his first late model feature in 1977 and wasted little time becoming a consistent frontrunner and fan favorite in the years ahead at Shawano Speedway as well as nearby Seymour Speedway.

 

The “Navarino Nightmare” as he’s affectionately known has scored multiple feature wins and 13 track championships. Anvelink has also won some big races along the way, including the $5,000-to-win Legendary 100 at Cedar Lake Speedway in western Wisconsin and the $4,000-to-win Mid-Summer Classic at Shawano.  Anvelink was a 2009 inductee into the Shawano Speedway Hall of Fame.

 

For more details on “5-10-32 – McBride, Parker & Anvelink,” email Verdegan at jverdegan2@gmail.com  or follow his website joeverdegan.com.

 

For more information on Pedal Down Promotions contact publisher Jeff Pederson at pedaldownpromotions@gmail.com or visit pedaldownpromo.com.

 

VERDEGAN’S PRIOR TITLES

 

2015  “Life In The Past Lane – a history of stock car racing in Northeast Wisconsin from 1950-1980”

Publisher – M and B Global Solutions

 

2016 “Wisconsin International Raceway – Where The Big Ones Run”

Publisher – M and B Global Solutions

 

2017  “Life In The Past Lane – The Next Generation”

Publisher – M and B Global Solutions

 

2018  “The Bird & The Bear”

Publisher – Pedal Down Promotions

 

2019  “Racing In The 906”

Publisher – Pedal Down Promotions

 

2020 “The Reformatory – Tales From Green Bay’s Maximum-Security prison”

Publisher – Pedal Down Promotions