Jerome Lucido began writing when he was seven years old and created The Tiger (not exactly on the level of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, but hey, Kipling wasn’t seven when he ...view moreJerome Lucido began writing when he was seven years old and created The Tiger (not exactly on the level of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, but hey, Kipling wasn’t seven when he wrote his classic). Unhappily, the start of Lucido’s writing career lasted about a week because he also began playing stickball in the streets of Brooklyn at that time and said good-bye to writing since he was destined to play center field for the Yankees. Thirteen years later, he returned to his typewriter. (What else can be said?) The Yanks didn’t think they needed Jerome, but he still had a typewriter, so he’s back at putting words on a page again.view less