End of Baseball

Peter Schilling Jr. has covered professional baseball online, in magazines, and in newspapers. He lives in a suburb of Minneapolis, where he writes on sports, film, and a variety of cultural concerns. This is his first novel.

Just as the exploits of the great players of the Negro Leagues have assumed the status of mythology, the Bill Veeck of the stories most of us have received secondhand has always seemed like a character from the imagination of a first rate novelist. Peter Schilling's fine book stirs all that wonderful, received folklore into a classic what-if tale. People always say baseball is a game where anything can happen, but there was a time when the most magical thing that might have happened, didn't; The End of Baseball is so engaging and convincing that it accomplishes something truly special: it makes you wish desperately it were true.