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"Of all the sports played across the globe, none has more curses, superstitions, or supernatural events [than] baseball, America's national pastime. While some of these can easily be explained, there are just as many that cannot. [This book] delves right into that superstition with short stories written by several key authors about baseball and the supernatural. Whether it's a frozen curveball, a robot pitcher, or fantasy outcomes (the Cubs winning the World Series!), these ... stories are ones that fans of science fiction will enjoy, while fans of baseball will find strangely believable"--
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Field of fantasies: baseball stories of the strange and supernatural
2014
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1597805483 9781597805483
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A face in the crowd -- Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan
The further adventures of the Invisible Man -- Karen Joy Fowler
The Hector Quesadilla story -- T. Coraghessan Boyle
Arthur Sternbach brings the curveball to Mars -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Ronnie on the mound -- Jack Kerouac
My kingdom for Jones -- Wilbur Schramm
Diamond girls -- Louise Marley
How to read a man -- Valerie Sayers
The hanging curve -- Gardner Dozois
The franchise -- John Kessel
Understanding Alvarado -- Max Apple
The southpaw -- Bruce McAllister
Ahab at the helm -- Ray Bradbury
McDuff on the mound -- Robert Coover
The mighty Casey -- Rod Serling
The house that George built -- Harry Turtledove
Mr. Last Season with the Owls -- Ron Carlson
Pitchers and catchers -- Cecilia Tan
Baseball memories -- Edo van Belkom
Lost October -- David Sandner and Jacob Weisman
Stephen to Cora to Joe -- Rick Wilber
How I got my nickname -- W.P. Kinsella.
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