C.S. Monitor Review: Blockade Billy


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Erik Spanberg has a great review of Blockade Billy in the Christain Science Monitor. Here's a few quotes:
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Quote 1: The baseball sequences move as well as the character sketches, helped by King’s preference for “Bull Durham”-style baseball pragmatism rather than the weepy “Field of Dreams” nostalgia too often plaguing baseball literary efforts.
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Quote 2: King knows his way around the dugout and makes fine sport of the game’s rhythms and gallows humor, too.
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Quote 3: All in all, “Blockade Billy” merits a curtain call for the endlessly prolific, and inventive, King. His novella makes a perfect companion for scanning the summer box scores and, most impressive of all, even conjures a momentary twinge of empathy for that most scorned baseball species: the umpire.
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