Tom Patrick McAuliffe is an Author living on Florida’s Emerald Coast with his wife Sharon and cat Gigi. He is a former photojournalist with the US Navy’s Combat Camera Group and a graduate of the DOD’s Mass Communications Program at Syracuse University. A magazine editor and writer with more than 25 years of by-lines, he has written two new books; ‘Mr. Mulligan-The Life of Champion Armless Golfer Tommy McAuliffe’ and he edited ’No Handicaps’ first written in 1939 by his Grandfather. He has 2 more books planned for this year, one on Army General Anthony C. McAuliffe (He is celebrated for his one-word reply (“Nuts!”) to a German surrender ultimatum during the Battle of the Bulge On December 22, 1944, during WWII and another book on MLB Baseball Player Detroit Tiger Dick McAuliffe. Please visit: www.authortommcauliffe.com
EXCERPT FROM MR. MULLIGAN
“As the sun began to set on the crisp autumn day in southeastern Michigan it cast the familiar golden glow of fall. It was the early 60s and Tommy McAuliffe teed up on the 18th hole at Plum Hollow Country Club in the suburbs of Detroit where he had played hundreds of times before. As soon as the driver hit the ball Tommy knew he was in trouble. It was another heart attack as the Cancer that was to take his life a few years later began to make itself at home in his body. They say your life flashes before you when you die…
The nightmarish sound was loud enough to crack teeth as the 20-ton electric streetcar, number 2013, tried to stop. Its steel wheels screeched against metal rails before it cleanly severed both arms just below the shoulder. Ever since he has always been haunted by that deafening sound. Nine-year-old Tommy McAuliffe’s life both ended and began on that day in 1901.”