Blockade Billy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442336587 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly A quirky baseball player with a past shrouded in secrecy is the tragic hero of this macabre tale from the dark side of the all-American sport. As King's fiction goes, this suspenseful short is a deftly executed suicide squeeze, with sharp spikes hoisted high and aimed at the jugular on the slide home. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. In the voice of George Granny Grantham, retired third-base coach of the New Jersey Titans, King (Under the Dome) recalls the spring of 1957, when Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from the Titans' Iowa farm system, helped to boost the team out of the basement and add some excitement to the national pastime. Billy hits with such power and guards the plate with such determination (hence his e
Baseball and Stephen King in One Package - A Two-Fer Americana Special Offer Steven M. Vance I was a great fan of baseball growing up and I am a fan of Stephen King's fiction. This story of a baseball legend and forgotten (fictional) chapter in the game's history was a lot of fun. It would be an enjoyable book to read aloud. Its a quick read. If you like baseball, give it a try. I think you'll enjoy it.. I have loved Stephen King since I was 13 I have loved Stephen King since I was 13, lol!! (I'm older now, but I won't tell you how much, lol). I started buying his books in hardcover many years ago, because I couldn't wait any longer for the book to come out in paperback, lol! I was wary of this at first, because I thought it was King writing about baseball. It's not though. It's a great story.. Amazon Customer said Five Stars. Exactly what I expected, thanks!
Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel), Finders Keepers, and End of Watch; the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams; Revival; Doctor Sleep, and Under the Dome. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York TimesBook Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. He is the recipie
He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. From "New York Times" bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of "Blockade Billy," the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. Both the Scribner book and the Simon & Schuster audiobook will feature a bonus short story ("Morality").". The Scribner edition will be available in all U.S. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don t know the true story of William Blockade Billy Blakely. and Canadian retail outlets. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. His secret was much, much worse and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on April 20, 2010 as a $25.00 limited-editionhardcover, Stephen Kingand Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner to m