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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>Peter Esterhazy (commissioner of baseball) had flown out to L.A. to attend the final three games of the season between the Vikings fitional) and the As (real). He wanted to be on hand for the post-game festivities and the presentation of the trophy for the divisdional championship.<br /><br />....the two teams having split the first two games, the winner of tonight's game would clinch. The game was exciting right from the start.. The As loaded the bases with one out in the top of the first. Charlie Gonze had Al De Mun wave the infield in at the corners and at double-play depth up the middle. Randy (shortstop) and D.J. (second baseman) cheated a few feet closer to eachother.<br /><br /><br />D.J. held up his glove and signaled one finger to his shortstop, which meant that he would take a throw from the pitcher. Randy nodded...<br /><br />The ball was hit past the pitcher just to the right of the second-base bag. The two steps D.J. had cheated made the difference. Diving, he backhanded the ball on the short hop, and while still in the air, shoveled it to Randy coming across the bag. The shortstop tickled the base with his toe and threw to first a microsecond before jumping to elude the upturned spikes of the runner coming in hard to break up the double play.<br /><br />The umpire hesitated for a second, then threw up his hand. The place exploded. Randy casually brushed off his uniform and trotted in just behind his second baseman...<br /><br />You won't see a better double play than that," Gene Jaress enthused to Fritz Esterhyazy.<br />The commissioner nodded agreement. "it's as if those two were an extension of eachother."<br /><br />Who knows, maybe some of you have even read it...

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Posted By: <b>identify7</b><p>If this was stated a little differently, it would appeal to an even wider audience, imho.

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>I just didn't have much hope of anyone buying the thing...it is scheduloed to become a movie in the next year...yeah!

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Posted By: <b>identify7</b><p>Well, I think that the sex and violence is appropriately subtle. Quite understated and not apparent when first read. But L.A. does not fit. Come on, nothing of note happens there anymore. Id recommend Concord, N.H.<br /><br />What do you think?

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>As for the sex, jeez, you actuaslly saw SEX in that quote? Hat's off to you...there's plenty of (mild) sex in the book, but I thought that quote was about a double play...<br /><br />I thought I read that nothing happened in New Hampshire, after all--speaking of sex and violence. But then, i didn't read about it in the newspaper, but on the Pierre Tremblay chatboard...if you tell me you don't know who he is, I'd not be surprised. If you tell me you do, I guess I would.<br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/f.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>Just a bit of violence: someone in the stands shoots Randy (the shortstop) in the butt (the butt part was an accident; he wanted to kill him) after he makes a home run to win a world series game. Turns out to be a wacko, and not a plot or anything. But anyway, the team has to go to Cincinatti without him, and they lose the Series, either because or unrealted to that. <br /><br />Funny how you forget things you want to...<br /><br />The end of the book is just as ridiculous in 2006 as it was in 1992, when it was written. I hope, when they make a movie out of it, they change the ending. neva happen, G.I...

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>The original Dreyfus Affair was told in one of my favorite movies, "The Life of Emile Zola" with Paul Muni. It's a classic.

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>...if you want to...