Field of Screams: Haunted Tales from the Baseball Diamond, the Locker Room, and Beyond

by Mickey Bradley, Dan Gordon

Overview

A collection of ghost stories collected from baseball players, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, whichexplores the sometimes amusing and sometimes spooky connection between baseball and the paranormal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762766482
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/03/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	399 KB

About the Author

Dan Gordon is the author of Cape Encounters: Contemporary Cape Cod Ghost Stories. 
Mickey Bradley is a freelance sportswriter and has written on topics ranging from sports to science to humor and entertainment. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Strange Things A-Brewin' 1

Chapter 2 New York's New Jersey 10

Chapter 3 Tiger Tales 28

Chapter 4 Angel in the Clubhouse 48

Chapter 5 Chasing Babe Ruth 61

Chapter 6 The Great One Lives 100

Chapter 7 Enshrined Ghosts 108

Chapter 8 Is This Heaven? No, It's Catalina 115

Chapter 9 Land of the Rising Dead 123

Chapter 10 The Wild Frontier 150

Chapter 11 Mickey on the Mantel 159

Chapter 12 Viva La Fantasma! 165

Chapter 13 Crazy '08 177

Chapter 14 Going . . . Going . . . Gone! 191

Chapter 15 Charmed 195

Chapter 16 A Song for the Ages 210

Chapter 17 Ghost Check in Aisle 3 228

Chapter 18 Minor Leagues, Major Ghosts 236

Chapter 19 Pranks, Hoaxes, and Jokes 250

References 258

Index 270

About the Authors 278

Editorial Reviews

Praise for authors' previous book, Haunted Baseball: “Like a pair of ‘ghost busters,’ Gordon and Bradley have mined a rich underground of bizarre and often unexplainable tales to liven up our reading.” —Library Journal “…a must read for fans of baseball and ghosts.” —Chronogram Magazine “…contains a wealth of anecdotes that have never been told…an entertaining and eerie look at our national pastime.” —Society for American Baseball Research “Authors Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon talked to seemingly every Yankee alive about all the ones who aren't, and how they hang around the stadium, lending ectoplasmic assistance.” —New York Sun “The book raises some interesting questions. Just don’t read it in an old hotel room.” —Tampa Tribune “… a catalog of haunted clubhouses and ghostly outfields … keep[s] baseball’s legacy of weirdness alive.” —Rocky Mountain News “… has the supernatural bases covered.”—Boston Herald “The stories are so diverse and so spread out over time you realize that you are not dealing with crop circles or the furry trout—these are not hoaxes or urban legends, but stories with actual substance to them…. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, you will walk away from the book with a new appreciation of baseball history.”—The Sports Review

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