As in "Shoeless Joe "and his other baseball fiction, Kinsella uses the sport not as subject but as context in these ten stories, which range from the realistic to the fantastic. Here a legendary base stealer for St. Louis Browns tries to perpetuate his skills, an extraterrestrial pretends to be the Seattle Mariners mascot, and three middle-aged baseball buddies play a nostalgic pickup game in the women's wear section of K-mart. The collection was first published in 1988 as "The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt."
- ISBN10 0870743880
- ISBN13 9780870743887
- Publish Date 1 August 1995
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 10 September 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 179
- Language English