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For many years stories circulated about a secret baseball game.

One bleak raw night in February 1911 Al Sangree, the well-known columnist for the New York Journal, and a few others were gathered around a table in the grill of the Keystone Hotel in York, Pennsylvania, talking baseball when Sangree explained the game.

According to Sangree, in early October, 1909, immediately following the World Series between Pittsburgh and Detroit, a toy manufacturer who was a pole vaulter in his college days conceived the idea of bringing together two all-star teams to be selected...

A Man Called Shoeless relates the life story of Joe Jackson, one of the most controversial, enigmatic and interesting characters in American popular culture. A story based on exhaustive research presented through the medium of fictionalized dialogue, the entire trajectory of his life is told through a broad tapestry of voices--family, friends, rivals, players, officials, fans, critics. From illiterate mill hand to baseball legend, to his fall from grace, his story is told by Joe himself, those he knew, and those who knew him.

The 1900 Paris Olympic Games were zany in many ways:

            No opening or closing ceremonies were held.

            Some competitors had no idea they had actually participated in the Olympics.

            Competitions included swimming obstacle races, underwater swimming, motorcycle             racing, live pigeon shooting, tug-of-war,...

A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, RolandParadise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony ofthose who knew him and those he knew.

In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boygenius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, tohermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, theepicist, the enigmatist. The rumors, the stories, the accusations. Whereis he? Is he? Was he ever.?

His mind was a cryptish place, an enigma, a harmless cipher machineknocked senseless by the insane attempts...

A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, Roland Paradise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony of those who knew him and those he knew.

In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boy genius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, to hermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, the epicist, the enigmatist. The rumors, the stories, the accusations. Where is he? Is he? Was he ever.?

His mind was a cryptish place, an enigma, a harmless cipher machine knocked senseless by the insane...