I’m Katherine Henry. My friends call me Kate. I am a baseball writer by trade. I’m forty, older than most of the Titans, including the manager. I’m tallish, prettyish, and a lot more interesting than most of the people I write about.
I’m good at my job, to the active disappointment of some of my male colleagues, who have been waiting for me to fall on my face since the day I walked into my first spring training.
I am also the only woman on the team plane who doesn’t serve drinks.
Kate has her problems with the arrogance, ignorance, easy money and bigotry of the sports world. She also has impossible deadlines and puts in weeks of overtime. But it’s all in a baseball-season’s work.
Until the day the designated hitter doesn’t show for the game: someone seems to have used his skull for batting practice.
The homicide squad is called in, and Kate’s search for a scoop puts her at odds, and in pleasantly close contact, with the law. As real life impinges on the world of baseball, Kate learns how naïve – and vulnerable – she really is.
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Alison Gordon, a journalist and broadcaster for twenty years, was the first woman on the American League beat when she covered the Toronto Blue Jays for the Toronto Star. Author of Foul Balls: Five Years in the American League, Gordon published her first Kate Henry mystery, The Dead Pull Hitter, in 1988, followed by Safe at Home, Night Game, Striking Out, and, in 1997, Prairie Hardball. She has been president of PEN Canada and of the Crime Writers of Canada, and the North American vice-president of the International Association of Crime Writers.
Alison Gordon lives in Toronto. She is at work on her next novel.
I?m Katherine Henry. My friends call me Kate. I am a baseball writer by trade. I?m forty, older than most of the Titans, including the manager. I?m tallish, prettyish, and a lot more interesting than most of the people I write about.
I?m good at my job, to the active disappointment of some of my male colleagues, who have been waiting for me to fall on my face since the day I walked into my first spring training.
I am also the only woman on the team plane who doesn?t serve drinks.
Kate has her problems with the arrogance, ignorance, easy money and bigotry of the sports world. She also has impossible deadlines and puts in weeks of overtime. But it?s all in a baseball-season?s work.
Until the day the designated hitter doesn?t show for the game: someone seems to have used his skull for batting practice.
The homicide squad is called in, and Kate?s search for a scoop puts her at odds, and in pleasantly close contact, with the law. As real life impinges on the world of baseball, Kate learns how naïve ? and vulnerable ? she really is.
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Anbieter: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. N.R. Jackson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Alison Gordon was the first women sportswriters to cover the American League Beat, writing about the Toronto Blue Jays for five years. Her main character Katherine Henry appears to be autobiographical. Stories were routine until someone seem to have used the skull of the designated hitter for batting practice. This was the first of the Five Book Series featuring Kate Henry. First Canadian Edition, both the non clipped Dust jacket and the book are in near fine condition. I have around 175 Baseball Novels and Mysteries including more of Alison Gordon, more than 75 books written by or about Women in Baseball, and over 2,400 Baseball publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the side order. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1789266339653
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Anbieter: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. No price on jacket. No statement of printing. Solid copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18534
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Anbieter: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket with minor creases to the front and rear flaps. The 1st novel in the Kate Henry mystery series, a baseball sportswriter, working in Toronto ON Canada. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 898
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Anbieter: G W Jackson, St.Marys, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Book has very light shelf wear. 222pp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BRA611
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Anbieter: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002678
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Anbieter: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Inscribed by author to previous owner on title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Signed by Author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 224396
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Anbieter: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. THIS BOOK IS BOUND IN GREY BOARDS WITH BRIGHT SILVER LETTERS ON THE SPINE. THERE IS VERY, VERY LIGHT WEAR ON THE SPINE TIPS AND COVER CORNERS. It is Flat-signed by the author on the title page. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is strong. The dust jacket is clean, bright & unmarked. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1306 (Box 57)
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Anbieter: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. First mystery from this author. Flat-signed by author. Light rubbing to d/j. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7375
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Anbieter: Sigrun Wuertele buchgenie_de, Altenburg, Deutschland
Zustand: wie neu - gebraucht. Gebundene Ausgabe, 222 S., Buch in sehr gutem Zustand, ohne Namenseintragung, ohne Widmung, Original-Schutzumschlag, Text sehr gut, Inhalt sehr gut, ISBN 0771034210, Zustand: 1, wie neu - gebraucht, Gebundene Ausgabe, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, , 1988 222 S., The dead pull hitter, Gorden, Alison. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BU095631
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Anbieter: All-Ways Fiction, DAYTON, NV, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by Alison Gordon on the Title page. Signature only A First edition, First printing. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear/tiny stain to the front edge. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Signed by Author(s). Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021919
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