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The 36 photos are all in the recently published book titled LETTERATI. The author is Paul McCarthy of Colorado. The books is published by ECW Press of Toronto and is in brick and mortar stores as well as on line from Amazon, B & N and possibly others. All photos were taken by me except for the one of me with Adam Logan at the 1996 Nationals - which was taken by Larry Sherman. These are all under my copyright and "right-click" protected - so if you tried to print them you would only get the captions. Should anyone want a print or prints for any reason, email me annsan.nyc.rr.com. NOTE: the order of the photos here has nothing to do with their order in the book. Paul ordered photos from me of specific people and the "scenes" from the old days and I dug up what I could from my stock of over 30 years. Yes, you have seen some of them before - a number have been in other publications and some were in the film WORD WARS Techie note for photographers: Most photos were taken with Tri-X film, though a few were scanned from color prints or slides. only the photos at the 2007 BAT and the 2005 Nationals were shot with a Canon digital camera. The only editing done in photoshop was simple conversion to digital black and whites, "spotting" and some cropping. In otherwords, these are un-manipulated images.
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Your photographer gets a hug from the 1996 National Champ, Adam Logan, just before the awards ceremony in Dallas. Larry Sherman took this one.
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Your photographer gets a hug from the 1996 National Champ, Adam Logan, just before the awards ceremony in Dallas. Larry Sherman took this one.

Ann SanfedeleAdam Logan

  • Alfred Butts, Scrabble inventor , made an appearance at a tournament at Arby's in New York City in 1981. Dave Schulman<br /> passed away in 2004 at the age of 91. He was in the first North American Open and many New York Tourneys. He worked on a number of dictionaries and often appeared chatting about word origins and English usage on Leonard Lopate's show on WNYC (NPR) .
  • Mike Senkiewicz in the New York City Finals in 1978 -<br /> 2 months before the first North American Invitational.
  • At the Awards Ceremony - The first North American Invitational in May, 1978. Jim Houle (l.) reaches out a hand to congratulate winner David Prinze (r.) Joel Skolnick, tourney director, looks on.
  • Stu Goldman at the NYC semi-finals at the Brooklyn War Memorial in the late 1970's (white border added to prevent lab from trimming photo when printing )<br /> .
  • Bob Felt (L) and Bob Lipton (R) at table 3 at the<br /> Masters Tournament in 1991 in Cinncinnati
  • the 1983 North American Championship in Chicago at the Drake Hotel. Joel Wapnick smies after having just defeated Joe Edley to win the championship. Milt Wertheimer annotated Wapnicks moves. Worker Barbara Amster in background. TV crew was recording game.
  • Charlie Southwell congratulates Jan Dixon when she won the 1st C NOTE tourney in 1984 - Mike Martin, the Game Room's "Head Prazy" looks on.
  • 1992 Nationals in Atlanta - Left to right Mark Nyman, Stan Rubinsky, Joe Edley, Peter Morris. Edley doing a "how the game was won" bit just after his victory against Wapnick was secured. Morris and Nyman were playing in the tourney - Rubinsky was the director.
  • Rita Norr tracking tiles during a game at New York's Club 56 - this was in 1988 a bit under a year after she won the<br /> 1987 "Unofficial" Nationals
  • Lester Schonbrun (r) tells film maker Eric Chaikin how it is - while waiting for the award ceremony to being at the 2002 Nationals in San Diego. Eric was at the tourney filming the documentary <I>WORD WARS</I>.
  • Bob Watson (seated, left) has just defeated Joel Wapnick at the 1988 North American Championship in Reno, Nevada. Tourney director Joe Edley looks over Bob's shoulder. Milt Wertheimer (center) was the annotator.
  • Joel Sherman and Matt Graham tune-up for their match<br /> with "Big Blue" for the article in the NY Times in 1998.
  • Your photographer gets a hug from the 1996 National Champ, Adam Logan, just before the awards ceremony in Dallas. Larry Sherman took this one.
  • Trey Wright, back to camera, just beat Chris Cree to advance to the Best of 5 round at the National Championship in New Orleans in 2004. Cree has a stiff upper lip while Marlon Hill offers comfort. It was a heatbreaking loss for Cree. Wright went on win the whole thing.
  • The quarterfinals of the 1979 New York City Tournament... Steve Pfeiffer, right,checking out Paul Avrin's moves at the next board. Directly behind Avrin is future US, Canadian and World champion, Joel Wapnick.
  • Dan Pratt of Baltimore shows Mike Wise of Canada the analog clock settings for Mike to agree the clock is correctly set. A part of the ritual at a tournament before the use of digital clocks became common and standard.
  • Stan Rubinsky and Mike Baron 1983 NAI Chicago. Not sure who was consoling who on a loss before the break. Between rounds on day two. Mike's shirt is subtitled. "Society for the Preservation of Equal Rights for Men".
  • Day 1 of the 1978 North American Invitiational in New York. From fron to back on the left side of the table are Roz Grossman, Ed Hepner, Mike Senkiewitz. John Ozag is shaking hands with Roz, behind him is Tim Maneth about to play Hepner. Then Frank Kuehnrich is waiting for his opponent, and Dan Pratt is playing Senkiewitiz
  • Ron Tiekert at the NAI in 1983 - Tiekert won the Nationals in 1985... he came in 8th in 1983.
  • Brian Cappelletto playing in the 1991 Boston Area Tournament premier division.
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