Field of fantasies
Subtitle: baseball stories of the strange and supernatural
By: edited by Rick Wilber
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781597805483
Subjects: American Baseball stories; American Science fiction; American Paranormal fiction
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: A face in the crowd  -- Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan; title: The further adventures of the Invisible Man  -- Karen Joy Fowler; title: The Hector Quesadilla story  -- T. Coraghessan Boyle; title: Arthur Sternbach brings the curveball to Mars  -- Kim Stanley Robinson; title: Ronnie on the mound  -- Jack Kerouac; title: My kingdom for Jones  -- Wilbur Schramm; title: Diamond girls  -- Louise Marley; title: How to read a man  -- Valerie Sayers; title: The hanging curve  -- Gardner Dozois; title: The franchise  -- John Kessel; title: Understanding Alvarado  -- Max Apple; title: The southpaw  -- Bruce McAllister; title: Ahab at the helm -- Ray Bradbury; title: McDuff on the mound  -- Robert Coover; title: The mighty Casey  -- Rod Serling; title: The house that George built  -- Harry Turtledove; title: Mr. Last Season with the Owls  -- Ron Carlson; title: Pitchers and catchers  -- Cecilia Tan; title: Baseball memories  -- Edo van Belkom; title: Lost October  -- David Sandner and Jacob Weisman; title: Stephen to Cora to Joe  -- Rick Wilber; title: How I got my nickname -- W.P. Kinsella.