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Original article published in BaseballReflections.com: http://baseballreflections.com/2010/05/07/a-review-of-hawk%E2%80%99s-nes...

Once I connected with the artist behind these books (on the Red Sox and other MLB teams), Peg Connery-Boyd, on LinkedIn I asked to do a review of them here on Baseball Reflections not only did she say YES, but when she found out I had a few kids (six to be exact) she sent us three!

Original article published in "theDay.com"
http://www.theday.com/article/20100322/NWS08/303229987/1044

Peg Connery-Boyd, at Calvin Burrows Field in Groton, has published a series of children's coloring and activity books, below, featuring several major league baseball teams.

Peg Connery-Boyd has come a long way from drawing pictures of Red Sox players in the attic of her Library Street home in Mystic.

Original article: http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=8c8d655c-afa4-4973-ba81-e12bdb1b1e05

First, it was her coloring books for major league baseball teams such as the Red Sox and Yankees. Now it's one for the U.S. Open tennis tournament, which continues this week in New York City.

Peg Connery-Boyd of Library Street, who secured a license from Major League Baseball two years ago to create a coloring and activity book for all 30 major league clubs, was approached earlier this year by the U.S. Tennis Association, which asked her to create a similar publication for the U.S. Open.

Original article: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/209088-fun-for-the-family-yankee-colo...

When I was a little kid, coloring books were still really popular. Nowadays, with the spread of the Internet and new forms of electronic entertainment, it seems like books are taking a real hit. Sad to think that, 20 years ago, a nice new book could be someones prized possession for the week, month, or year it takes to complete. In today’s society, kids are using the Internet before they can even understand many of the words on the screen.

From viewfromthebleachers.com, April 1st, 2009

Peg Connery-Boyd of Hawk’s Nest Publishing, LLC read my last post on this site (Notes From Rehab), and asked if The World’s Greatest Living Cubs Fan (my dad) and I might like to see the “Cubs Coloring and Activity Book”. I told her we’d be happy to take a look at it.

The next morning two copies arrived on my doorstep via Priority Mail.

I was planning to see my dad later that day, so I took one copy along for him.

From bleedcubbieblue.com, Mar 29, 2009

While we wait for this afternoon's matchup between the Cubs and Indians, here's a book review for those of you who have school-age and younger children. A startup company, Hawk's Nest Publishing, based in Connecticut, is printing a series of these books for young fans of various teams. So far they have books for the Mets, Red Sox, Yankees and Cubs.

In the summer of 2006, Peg Connery-Boyd went in search of a Red Sox coloring book for her Sox-obsessed 10-year-old, but she came up empty.

"I couldn't find anything hip, she said. "I found a coloring book about the history of baseball, but it wasn't interesting enough for him.

So Connery-Boyd decided to fill the void by creating a kids' activity book of her own.

The Red Sox Coloring and Activity book, published by Hawk's Nest Publishing, is packed with drawings of Sox players, crossword puzzles, word searches, connect-the-dots and trivia for kids 6 and older.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 5/15/08

It's uncommon for a start-up company to become a licensee of Major League Baseball and its players association, but Hawk's Nest Publishing has done so, securing the rights for activity books featuring Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and New York Mets players.

"I was looking for a Red Sox coloring book, thinking there would be one, and there wasn't. So I decided to take a stab at it myself," says Peg Connery-Boyd, Hawk's Nest's founder. She was working in IT at the time, but submitted a prototype to the MLB Players Association, which manages rights to the players' likenesses, and MLB, which controls team logos. "They're looking for ways to reach kids and shed a light on the best of Major League Baseball," Connery-Boyd explains.

The Red Sox version launched last July, and the first 10,000 copies were sold out by Christmas. The books, which are revised each year because they feature each team's current roster, are sold in the ballparks, as well as in bookstores and other channels. Other teams may be added next year.

Read the story online:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6560888.html?nid=2788

http://blog.masslive.com/parentingproject/2007/10/color_these_red_sox.html

My son has become an avid baseball fan and, most exciting, a Red Sox fan. He's building an impressive baseball card collection, plays catch with himself in the backyard, and watches all the games with his dad. As a neat side effect, even I have become attached to baseball this year. My 3 year old is obsessed with baseball too. He developed his liking honestly on his own, before his big brother started playing all the time. Now I'm immersed in baseball day in and day out.

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Mystic woman's Red Sox coloring book leads to lucrative major league contract

Two years ago Peg Connery-Boyd went looking for a baseball activity book, preferably one about the Red Sox,to keep her then-10-year-old son occupied on a road trip that included a game at Fenway Park.

Surprised that she couldn't find one, the would-be artist figured she could probably do one herself.

She started sketching Manny Ramirez. She called the Red Sox to see if she could use their logo.