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Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Sports, Horror, King; Stephen - Prose & Criticism, Lang:en
Summary
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From *New York Times* bestselling author Stephen King
comes the haunting story of *Blockade Billy*, the greatest
Major League baseball player to be erased from the game.** Even the most die-hard 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. Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on
April 20, 2010 as a $25.00 limited-edition hardcover, Stephen
King and Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner
to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of
***Blockade Billy****, *with an on-sale date of May 25th, the
same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will
be available in all U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the
Scribner book and the Simon & Schuster audiobook will
feature a bonus short story ("Morality").