Blockade Billy (CD-Audio)

from mainrun

Read this a week after the Super Bowl; a few weeks after the Patriots lost the AFC Championship game. I am ready for Pitchers/Catchers to arrive at spring training, in what, a couple weeks?! The first three quarters of the book was good stuff. Not crazy about the odd conclusion/ending, but overal...

from PiyushC

Halloween 2013#2 The second book this Halloween Season happens to be a novella by [[Stephen King]], whose another work, [Doctor Sleep] in on my list for this Halloween. This baseball story is based in the 50s and focusses on the magnificent, but short career of the Catcher, Billy. Sounds pretty r...

from babsji

Not one of his better stories. It feels like it should be in one of his anthologies as a filler, not a stand alone story. It wasn't bad, just not up to his usual standards. Or rather my expectations for one of his stories. He does seem to be passionate about early baseball though.

from branimal

Baseball is a sport that I have a hard time supporting. A few years ago (approx. 8 to be exact) I had seen a live game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, it's a totally different animal live. It comes across as lively and exciting. However, I ...

from eleanor_eader

I've read a few short stories lately, of not-quite-novella length, published on their own, or in twos, that I honestly think would have been much better served in a short story anthology. Not simply to get better value for money, but because they aren't good enough to stand alone. I can understan...