Blockade Billy

Blockade Billy

By Stephen King
$14.99
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“Blockade Billy works well...The narrative voice that King has conjured up for Granny Grantham [is] funny, sharply observant, and casually profane...Equally important is the lovingly detailed evocation of the game as it was played in 1957, when, with few exceptions, the players were neither celebrities nor millionaires but ‘working stiffs’ who earned, on average, $15,000 a year. Kings descriptions of these tough, hard-bitten men and the hardscrabble contests they engaged in add both a dash of nostalgia and a touch of gritty reality to this dark, absorbing portrait of a vanished era.” 

Washington Post

Stephen King’s novella, Blockade Billy, is now available on audio—along with the bonus story “Morality”—for only $14.99!

Even the most diehard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first—and only—player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game’s history.
     Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse…and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.