Announcement: The End of Baseball

January 28, 2008

Based on Bill Veeck’s quashed attempt to buy the Philadelphia A’s and stock it with players from the Negro Leagues, The End of Baseball features a number of real-life characters, including Veeck, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who sought to keep the game lily-white); columnist Walter Winchell (the Matt Drudge of his day?); and J. Edgar Hoover (who sees a Communist under every base). Author Peter Schilling — editor of the marvelous Mudville Magazine — also includes stars of the Negro Leagues such as Josh Gibson, Martin Dihigo, and Cool Papa Bell.

I usually find recent baseball fiction quite lacking, but this sounds like a solid read, and one easily envision it as a motion picture down the line.

The End of Baseball is due out in May from Ivan R. Dee Publisher.

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1 Cliff Burns January 28, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Did you hear Bud Selig’s comment that soon we’re not going to recognize baseball? Some of the poobahs in charge of the national past time think it moves too slow, not exciting enough, can’t compete with basketball and football (hockey still isn’t on their radar). If these idiots tinker with the sport, watch out…

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