Stephen King is known for his very long, horrifying novels (or his horrifyingly long novels). Blockade Billy may be the antithesis to that. It is a mere 112 pages long (and a few of those pages either have an illustration or are blank). I knocked this one out in about an hour.
Personally, I am not a fan of baseball and wouldn't normally select a book about baseball, however, I am a fan of Stephen King, so I gave it a shot. I was not disappointed despite all the game details included. The story is about a ball player who is called in to help out the NJ Titans' 1957 team when they lose their two catchers for the season and are desperate for a replacement at the last minute. From the very first game, the reader knows that something is not at all "right" with the lead character but up until the very end we don't know what it is, just that something big and bad is going to happen. The foreshadowing is phenomenal without giving anything away. It is written in an interesting style as well: from the point of view of a teammate speaking directly to none other than Stephen King himself, many years after the fact.
Since I hate it when someone gives something away in a story (as my husband would attest), I will not give anything away either. You will just have to read it yourself!
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Blockade Billy
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