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Loading... A Player to be Maimed Later (A Lloyd Keaton Mystery)by John Billheimer
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Blaze Stender, a retired pitching superstar, asks his old friend Lloyd Keaton to write his biography, hoping that the book will help ensure his election to baseball's Hall of Fame. When Stender goes missing following a boating accident, Keaton discovers that the facts of his old friend's life are at odds with his popular image, and that Stender was keeping some dark secrets, including blackmail payments that could be related to a mysterious death. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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I'm a sucker for a good baseball story, of course, whether it's reading or writing them, from Matt Christopher to Sidd Finch to Michael Joyce's "Going the Distance" to Fenway Fiction in all its incarnations.
I found the wardrobe inventory a little tedious, at times ("George wore a yellow shirt with green buttons, a pink tie, purple slacks, dress shoes in black and a rakish orange cap" type of stuff.) and some of the explication was a little heavy-handed, but, like I said, I had fun reading this one and can't complain that I spent a few hours with this story. ( )