St. Louisans can seem almost obsessed with high school, and this book goes a long way toward explaining it, at least as far as SLU High is concerned. The boys in Castellano’s Bull in the Ring feel, with much justification, that they have been selected, anointed as tomorrow’s leaders. Accomplishment and success are expected. The bond with their school is deep.
After graduating from Northwestern, Castellano worked as a sports writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat years before joining Anheuser-Busch, where he became a top executive.
“Bull in the Ring is his first book and captures the culture of an iconic St. Louis institution. I hope his second does the same thing with the brewery, writes Bill McClellan in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Read the review here.