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    Extra Innings
    Extra Innings
    Extra Innings
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    Extra Innings

    By Bruce Spitzer

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    In the year 2092, Ted Williams, the greatest baseball hitter of all time, is brought back to life through the science of cryonics.

    Once again playing for the Red Sox, Williams finds himself trapped in a world he hardly recognizes: the corruption of the game he loves with über-juiced batters and robot pitchers; difficult love affairs clashing with his old desires; and a military conflict of the future in which he must harness the fighter pilot skills he used in his first life.

    Dr. Elizabeth Miles is the cryonicist who brings him back to life, initiating a dramatic sequence of medical achievements. She and her young son Johnnie are a constant reminder of what Williams lacked in his first trip around the bases, never devoting much time to love and family. But old habits die hard.

    With enemies and allies both on the field and off, Williams must make sense of it all and play on against a machine that he detests, pressure to take the “giddyup” he abhors, unrelenting media mania, and a dystopian world he can’t ignore.

    The narrative resonates with the consequences of the major issues we face in our world today—the steroids debate in sports, global warming, corporate greed, technology run rampant, and the moral ambiguity of war.

    Extra Innings is alternately poignant and humorous, heartbreaking and joyous. Thought-provoking throughout, it’s a rollicking ride that looks at second chances and redemption, the ability to triumph over adversity, and the search for meaning in this life and the next.

    Flawed in his first life, Williams must decide in the second what’s more important, the chance to win his first World Series, or the chance to be a better man?

    The Greatest Comeback of all Time is More Than Just a Game.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Spitzer
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9780984956913
    Extra Innings
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    Bruce Spitzer

    Bruce E. Spitzer is a public relations executive, magazine editor and columnist. His writing has won awards from the New England Press Association, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Publicity Club of Boston. He is a graduate of Boston University and Rutgers and lives in the Boston area. Extra Innings is his first novel.

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      I think most people were shocked to learn shortly after the death of Ted Williams that his body had been cryogenically preserved. I suppose we all assumed that Mr. Williams, or members of his family, hoped that he would some day be brought “back to life.” Then, most of us shrugged and said, “Yeah, right.” Well what if exactly that was to happen near the end of this century? What would Ted think? What would he do? This is the proposition around which Bruce Spitzer builds his new novel, Extra Innings.Some ninety years after his death, Ted Williams wakes up in a hospital wondering how he got there. Frankly, his doctors, not really expecting quite such a successful “reanimation,” are soon almost as shocked as Ted himself. Accounting for Ted’s relatively quick recovery of a fully functioning body is that his head has been affixed to the body of a young tennis professional who was killed in an accident that conveniently (for Ted, not for the tennis pro), destroyed his head in the process of killing him.Although the set-up for all of this is a little long, particularly as it involves Ted’s physical therapy work in the hospital, don’t give up on it because you will miss the fun if you do. Extra Innings might be closer to a stand-up triple than a home run, but I’m not complaining. Just as in real life, Ted’s story has two distinct chapters: an illustrious baseball career interrupted by service to his country at the behest of the United States Marines. In fact, I felt a little like the Ted Williams character himself when the book suddenly shifted from a baseball story to a war story. As the fictional Ted Williams put it, “It was as if his life was a novel, a baseball novel, and in the middle of it an entirely different book broke out.” Don’t worry, though – it’s all good.Bruce Spitzer, with any luck, will find quite a broad audience for Extra Innings because the book should appeal to baseball fans, science fiction fans, environmentalists, and fans of military fiction. It is not the most serious piece of fiction out there, but amid all the fun, I came away from it with a new appreciation for Ted Williams, the man, and what he accomplished in his life – and wondering how I might live my second life differently if given that chance.Rated at: 3.5

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