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It's the year 2000, and baseball has changed dramatically. Dan Quayle is the new commissioner, the Yankees have moved to New Jersey, and the Supreme Court has ruled that women can play in the major leagues. Enter Louise "Balls" Gehrig, sporting baby blue eyes and a smile that can steal a heart almost as quickly as she can steal a base. As first baseperson for the expansion Manhattan Meteorites, she's about to break baseball's gender barrier and change America's pastime forever.
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From Publishers Weekly
Lots of writers have ideas for potentially great (or at least entertaining) books. Bechard, author of The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, had one too, but a good idea and potential don't automatically make for a good (or even entertaining) novel. Bechard, a dia-hard New York Mets fan and radio talk-show host wannabe, is in the Fantasy League of fiction writing with this story about major league baseball in the year 2000. The League's first female player, Louise "Balls" Gehrig, has just taken the field and is stealing bases and hearts, and generally making men look bad, with her lightning-quick speed, ferocious bat and "long, black locks flowing freely onto her superbly sculpted shoulders." Bechard knows a lot more about baseball statistics than about creating original characters and a believable plot. Other than dodging death threats from a mysterious letter writer and settling for phone sex with her boyfriend, the ace pitcher of an opposing team, Gehrig never seems to struggle. She's unshakable-too confident and composed for a rookie, especially one in her unique position. Despite Bechard's masterful mimickry of the sports media-he does some decent impressions of TV announcers, newspaper columnists and even David Letterman (the number 7 reason why Dan Quayle will make a fine Commissioner of Baseball: very little spelling), the book is neither clever enough to be funny nor insightful enough to be thought-provoking. Which may mean it's just perfect for a TV-movie-it's already been optioned by 20th-Century Fox.
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- PublisherPlume
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0452272947
- ISBN 13 9780452272941
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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