The Legend of Cyclone Young

By Ken Ramsley

The year is 1876 and Centennial Day celebrations have jammed local railroad traffic leaving the mighty Pittsburgh Alleghenies baseball team stranded in Newcomerstown, Ohio. To stay practiced up, the Alleghenies challenge local village ballplayers to a friendly game. But with word of the game telegraphed far and wide, this will be no ordinary contest.

From up and downriver, horse-drawn wagons arriving at breakneck speed pour 3,000 anxious souls onto Hansen’s playing field. From among their ranks, the best players from up- and down-river join forces to become the Valley team – local farmers and woodsmen and store clerks preparing to play the biggest game of their lives.

Below threatening clouds, the game gets underway, and the Valleys are showing no signs of life until – suddenly – the home team ekes out a precarious late-inning lead. But the lead has been purchased at a crippling price. The Valley's great pitcher lies injured in the mud.

While the captains argue, a young phantom steps from the shadows with ball in hand ready to hold the line. Is this a joke? "He is just a boy!"

But it was no joke, and as long as baseball is played in this river valley, no one will ever forget what happened next.

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The Legend of Cyclone Young is the first story in my seven-story collection entitled The Golden Age of Heroes...

The Golden Age of Heroes includes:

- The Legend of Cyclone Young
- Silver Coins
- The Hive
- The Quality Guy
- Harry James
- Twelve Days to Live
- Porcupine Station

The seven stories of The Golden Age of Heroes may be purchased under one cover as a paperback edition and as individual eBooks (also available as a one-click eBook bundle).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ken Ramsley
• Release date: Aug 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370079711

Ken Ramsley

At Brown University, Ken Ramsley investigates the moons of Mars, studies the orbits of near-Earth asteroids, and consults on missions to the inner solar system. Prior to his work in planetary science, Ken designed telescopes, consumer electronics, industrial controls, laboratory instrumentation, robotics, medical devices, and spacecraft. The author of short- and medium-length fiction, Ken published his first content for the Kindle Reader in 2009. If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend, write a reader-review, and/or search for other titles by Ken Ramsley. To contact the author directly, please feel free to write email to [e-mail]

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The Legend of

Cyclone Young

The Golden Age of Heroes

Book 1

Ken Ramsley

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The Legend of Cyclone Young is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are products of the author's imagination and facsimiles of reality designed to facilitate realistic fictional settings and storytelling narratives.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ken Ramsley published his first ebook content in 2009. At Brown University, Ken investigates the moons of Mars, studies the orbits of near-Earth asteroids, and consults on missions to the inner solar system. Prior to his work in planetary science, Ken designed telescopes, consumer electronics, industrial controls, laboratory instrumentation, robotics, medical devices, and spacecraft. If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend, write a review, and/or search online for other titles by Ken Ramsley.

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The Legend of Cyclone Young is the first of seven stories in my collection entitled The Golden Age of Heroes. A printed paperback collection of all seven stories is also available. For details, search online for 'Ken Ramsley stories.'

The Legend of

Cyclone Young

Sitting atop the concrete floor of my 21st-Century garage, I've discovered a 19th-Century box filled with 20th-Century tools. Made with care and dust-covered with neglect, I have no clear memory of this box. But there is one thing I know for certain… As the last item stored in our garage, this is the last item I will ever set out for sale.

Draped from the roof of our porch, hugely pretentious signs signal my final sales pitch of the day – the last sales pitch I will ever make to passing road traffic…

'Going out of Business!'

'All Offers Entertained!'

No more yard sales or garage sales or rummage sales from this old codger, I hear myself muttering later in the day.

Not long ago, Edna would scowl at such blatant profanation, but she was never one to dismiss the inevitable, and I am feeling no objections from her ghost.

Just when I am ready to end my career for good, a pickup truck hits the brakes, raises a plume of roadside dirt, and grinds to a halt. Moments later, a pair of bargain-hunters jump from the vehicle and race across the lawn. With vulture-like precision, they pick the bones of my fading inventory, and without a