Casey and the Bat - Softcover

Betzold, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0741401347 ISBN 13: 9780741401342

Publisher: Buy Books on the web.com, 1999

Synopsis

Casey McHale wants to be the first woman in the major leagues. But when she is beaned by a jealous rival, three baseball icons compete for control of her spirit - playful 'Turkey' Mike Donlin, belligerent Ty Cobb, and determined pioneer Jackie Mitchell. A disgruntled journalist, Buck Thrasher, is on the trail of a conspiracy that may involve Cobb, the Baseball Liberation Front, a hypnotic youth evangelist named Sebastian Sabbatini, and the world's most famous scary doctor. A surrealistic feminist baseball revenge fantasy, CASEY AND THE BAT has been called "explosive", "absolutely hypnotic", and "terribly unfair" - by its own characters!

About this title

About the Author

Michael Betzold is an Emmy award-winning journalist who has written three non-fiction books: "Appointment with Doctor Death (Momentum, 1993), the definitive account of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's euthanasia crusade; "Queen of Diamonds: The Tiger Stadium Story", with Ethan Casey (Northmont Publishing, 1997), a history of Tiger Stadium; and "End of the Line: Autoworkers and the American Dream (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), an account of life on the assembly line. A former reporter for the Detroit Free Press, Betzold is a freelance writer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. CASEY AND THE BAT, his first novel, is his way of coping with the loss of Tiger Stadium.

Edition details

• Publisher: Buy Books on the web.com
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0741401347
• ISBN 13: 9780741401342
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 182