04039cam a2200457 4500 234867465 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780615365985 0615365981 1da7bc17-f9c5-445d-932c-9dd4aa269bc7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 333647 OverDrive (Product ID) 333647 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib King, Stephen. Blockade Billy [Libby]. Storyville, LLC, 2010. baseball. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 674kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. A quirky baseball player with a past shrouded in secrecy is the tragic hero of this macabre tale from the dark side of the all-American sport... a narrative steeped so perfectly in the argot of the game and the behavior of its players and fans that readers will willingly suspend their disbelief. As King's fiction goes...a deftly executed suicide squeeze, with sharp spikes hoisted high and aimed at the jugular on the slide home. Publishers Weekly. HTML:The baseball story Stephen King fans have been waiting for, this never-before-published novella tells the story of one of the game's best kept secrets: the incredible rookie season of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely, which came to a shocking end in 1957. I love old-school baseball,and I also love the way people who've spent a lifetime in the game talk about the game. I tried to combine those things in a story of suspense. People have asked me for years when I was going to write a baseball story. Ask no more; this is it." —Stephen King Even the most diehard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first — and only — player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. This eBook edition features both the cover illustration by Glen Orbik and the interior artwork of Alex McVey from the limited hardcover edition published by Cemetery Dance Publications.. Media Type: eBook. Grand Master Award. Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. Orbik, Glen. McVey, Alex. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=1da7bc17-f9c5-445d-932c-9dd4aa269bc7 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2138-1/1DA/7BC/17/BlockadeBilly.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1DA7BC17-F9C5-445D-932C-9DD4AA269BC7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2138-1/1DA/7BC/17/BlockadeBilly.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1DA7BC17-F9C5-445D-932C-9DD4AA269BC7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2138-1/1DA/7BC/17/BlockadeBilly.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1DA7BC17-F9C5-445D-932C-9DD4AA269BC7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT