Blockade Billy

Baseball is a good thing. Always was, always will be.

Baseball is also a game of balance.

I prefer the Yankees,' one of the blueshirts chimes in. 'If I want your opinion, I'll rattle the bars in your cage,' Lombardazzi said. 'Until then, shut up and die right.

Ain't you just the cheeriest Cheerio, ' I says.

The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you.

them up when the other team had a runner on third. By the time the Yankees came to town—this was going on to the end of April—the whole stadium would flush orange when the Bombers had a runner on third, which they did often in that series. Because the Yankees kicked the living shit out of us and took over first place. It was no fault of the kid’s; he hit in every game and tagged out Bill Skowron between home and third when the lug got caught in a rundown.

Stephen King has written more than forty novels and two hundred short stories. He is

When you’re young, people always want to listen to your stories, especially if you were in pro baseball. But when you’re young, you don’t have time to tell them. Now I’ve got all the time in the world, and it seems like nobody cares about those old days.