As a stand-alone from the previous entry about baseball fiction, I found an extensive list 
of science fiction/baseball stories, as compiled by Steven Silver. Many of these have appeared in various SF pulp anthologies, rather than as full out novels. I don’t know if I’d agree with each entry; for example, I wonder if some of W.P. Kinsella’s work should fall into the sci-fi genre, even if the author does often delve into the mystic. Silver has done a nice research job; some of the stories go back more than 50 years. SciFi.com held an on-line discussion in 2000 about the genre, which can be found here. One of the problems with such discussions is a tendency to roam from the topic, but once they get into, it can serve as an introduction to heretofore undiscovered treasures.
As I was cataloguing my collection with LibraryThing, I came across The New Atomic Bombshells. At the time I bought it, I’m sure I found it quite good. But it’s lost a lot in the intervening years.
It’s always ays interesting to see how close stories written so relatiuvely long ago come to predicting now-contemporary society. I don’t know how much research Browne did I’m guessing not a whole lot. But it’s amusing nonethless.
(Just an an aside, baseball has also been the theme of episodes of some favorite sci-fi TV shows including X-Files, Quantum Leap, and Deep Space Nine, as well as the classic “The Mighty Casey” on The Twilight Zone.)
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