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People have been asking King for years when he was going to write a baseball story. This is it: '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' said King.
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' . . . suspenseful . . . deftly executed . . . with sharp spikes hoisted high and aimed at the jugular on the slide home' (Publisher's Weekly on BLOCKADE BILLY)
'America's greatest living novelist delivers his masterpiece.' (Lee Child on UNDER THE DOME)
'King's most purely entertaining novel in years . . . utterly compelling.' (John Connolly on UNDER THE DOME)
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'America's greatest living novelist delivers his masterpiece.' (Lee Child on UNDER THE DOME)
'King's most purely entertaining novel in years . . . utterly compelling.' (John Connolly on UNDER THE DOME)
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 original, never-before-published novella represents Stephen King at his very best, and this Cemetery Dance World's First Hardcover Edition brings it into print for the very first time.
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 original, never-before-published novella represents Stephen King at his very best, and this Cemetery Dance World's First Hardcover Edition brings it into print for the very first time.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1444716506
- ISBN 13 9781444716504
- BindingAudio CD
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