Baseball

Field of Fantasies

Baseball Tales of the Strange and Supernatural

Rick Wilber, ed.

  1. Rick Wilber, Introduction
  2. Stephen King and Stewart O‘Nan, “A Face in the Crowd”
  3. Karen Joy Fowler, “The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man”
  4. T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Hector Quesadilla Story”
  5. Kim Stanley Robinson, “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars”
  6. Jack Kerouac, “Ronnie on the Mound”
  7. Wilbur Schramm, “My Kingdom for Jones”
  8. Louise Marley, “Diamond Girls”
  9. Valerie Sayers, “How to Read a Man”
  10. Gardner Dozois, “The Hanging Curve”
  11. John Kessel, “The Franchise”

Something Real

Moe Berg Mysteries Book 1

A few years ago my friend Ben Bova, one of the most honored writers in science fiction and a very knowledgeable baseball fan, proposed that we work together on a fictional retelling of the famous baseball player and spy Moe Berg. Ben had a movie in mind and we worked up a screen treatment that prompted some interest in Hollywood. Ultimately, that came to nothing; but it did get me started thinking about Berg, one of the more interesting personalities to ever play baseball.

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