Love and Death in the Moose League

By Ryan Bradley

During his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone from Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and even been a Marlin. Now he was an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, maybe not even Patterson himself, had any idea what the hell he was doing toeing the rubber in Alaska's Moose League. But when Jennifer Tisch of the Anchorage Daily News goes looking for a story, she soon learns there's much more to the tough-talking, hard-drinking Patterson than meets the eye.
Ryan Bradley has pumped gas, changed oil, painted houses, swept the floor of a mechanic's shop, worked on a construction crew in the Arctic Circle, fronted a punk band, and managed an independent children's bookstore. He now designs book covers. He received his MFA from Pacific University and his poetry and fiction has been published widely online and in print. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks, a story collection, PRIZE WINNERS (Artistically Declined Press, 2011) and CODE FOR FAILURE, his debut novel (Black Coffee Press, 2012). His poetry homage to Pablo Neruda, THE WAITING TIDE will arrive in 2013 from Curbside Splendor. He lives in Oregon with his wife and two sons.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mendicant Bookworks
• Release date: Mar 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301675838

Ryan Bradley

Ryan Bradley has pumped gas, changed oil, painted houses, swept the floor of a mechanic's shop, worked on a construction crew in the Arctic Circle, fronted a punk band, and managed an independent children's bookstore. He now designs book covers. He received his MFA from Pacific University and his poetry and fiction has been published widely online and in print. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks, a story collection, PRIZE WINNERS (Artistically Declined Press, 2011) and CODE FOR FAILURE, his debut novel (Black Coffee Press, 2012). His poetry homage to Pablo Neruda, THE WAITING TIDE will arrive in 2013 from Curbside Splendor. He lives in Oregon with his wife and two sons.

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Love and Death in the Moose League

By Ryan Bradley

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Contents

Love and Death in the Moose League

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

Part VII

About Ryan Bradley

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Love and Death in the Moose League

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice.

-Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

I

Patterson’s catcher came out to tell him everyone at home plate, ump included, could smell the whiskey emanating from the mound.

Patterson threw down the resin bag. I rub whiskey into my mitt for good luck, he said.

The catcher, Patterson didn’t