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"Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction "collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball s youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology.

Editor Trey Strecker s collection begins with an informal village match in an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper s "Home as Found "(1838), published the year prior to Abner Doubleday s alleged invention of the game outside Cooperstown, New York,...

"Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction "collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball s youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology.

Editor Trey Strecker s collection begins with an informal village match in an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper s "Home as Found "(1838), published the year prior to Abner Doubleday s alleged invention of the game outside Cooperstown, New York,...

So I'm a Heel

It's just a lucky break the way Ed Hawkins gets a look at that police blotter that tips him off on the arrest-and-release of his rich neighbor, Otto Weylin, for molesting a minor. Nobody ever gave Hawkins a break, and he doesn't intend to give Weylin a break either. He figures that Weylin is good for ten grand to keep this little bit of information out of the papers, and maybe he's right. But why all of a sudden is his 10-year-old son becoming so friendly with Weylin? What is the secret that Weylin's sex-starved wife keeps hinting at? The blackmail scheme is...

Last Job for a Killer

The governor said, "You've come for amnesty?"

"That's right." Slattery's mouth was dry.

"How come?" the governor breathed. "You, of all men?"

Rage thickened Slattery's voice. "Why not?"

"Amnesty for Ben Slattery. You want to quit your side of the law and join ours?"

Slattery said "Ours? You don't mean ours, you mean yours, don't you Governor?"

"Ours," Fallon barked. "Mine and the rest of the law-abiding citizens of this Territory. You want to join us?"

Slattery was silent.

"Why? Why are you here? Why...