W. P. Kinsella
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As in <i>Shoeless Joe</i> and his other baseball fiction, Kinsella uses the sport not as subject but as context in these ten stories, which range from
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the realistic to the fantastic. Here a legendary base stealer for St. Louis Browns tries to perpetuate his skills, an extraterrestrial pretends to be the Seattle Mariners mascot, and three middle-aged baseball buddies play a nostalgic pickup game in the women's wear section of K-mart. The collection was first published in 1988 as <i>The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt</i>.
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