Even the most dedicated baseball fan doesn't know the true story of William Blakely. He harbored a secret – darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. This novella is King's first baseball-themed fiction. Includes a bonus story, Morality, read by Mare Winningham. "A deftly executed suicide squeeze, with sharp spikes hoisted high and aimed at the jugular on the slide home."—Publishers Weekly