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  SK & Baseball: 2 great books

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  Anyone read Blockade Billy or The girl who loved Tom Gordon? I'm reading Billy now; TG was great. Are any of SK's other books about baseball?

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  Vladd (edited)

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  He's got a non-fiction cowritten with Stewart O'Nan about the Red Sox winning the 2004 World Series. It's called Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season.

  And he's written the foreword to Fenway: 100 that just got out.

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  stkmw02 

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  You could probably find some other articles related to King and Baseball as well, since he's a big fan. He contributed to the building of a field in Maine and is a great supporter of both Little and Major League events.

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  Wayne M 

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  The short story Head Down, in Nightmares and Dreamscapes is about a small town baseball team. I really liked the story, as much for the small town ambiance as the subject matter. I have not read either the Red Sox book, or Blockade Billy (though I did give the Red Sox book to my brother in law when it was released, as he is an uber-fan of the team).

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    nina d 

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    Thanks for the mention, I'll keep a lookout for the story.

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    Wayne M 

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    Its not hard to find :-) It is the last in the book, if I remember correctly.

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    nina d 

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    LOL. Wow, what a memory.

    I just need to see if I can get my library to scrounge it up for me.

    Thanks again Wayne.

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    Wayne M 

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    Ha! Not necessarily a good memory. I just read that collection way too many times through (mostly listening to it on cassette back in the day). I hope you enjoy the book. Its old enough now that a library shouldn't have a hard time producing one for you :-)

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