Interview with Dan Gordon, Co-author of “Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends and Eerie Events”
We recently had a chance to sit down with Dan Gordon and speak with him about his newly released book, Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends and Eerie Events, which he co-authored with Mickey Bradley.
The book covers some of the folk and ghostlore that players in North America have traded for generations as they make their way from city to city every summer.
Dan also shares with us some of the stories that he has picked up while interviewing players in Japan and in other baseball-loving countries.
The interview touches on Haunted Baseball and his upcoming, as yet unnamed, project that will focus a lot of attention on the relationship between the supernatural and baseball in Japan.
The book is available from Amazon.com (America) and Amazon.co.jp (Japan).
Also of interest would be a book that Dan Gordon wrote a chapter for called Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime which discusses the many permutations of baseball around the globe in its varied contexts. Dan penned a contribution that focused on baseball in Venezuela and the annual high school tournament held at Koshien stadium (I erroneously refer to the book as “Baseball Beyond Borders” during the interview).
Baseball Without Borders can be found here (Amazon.com in America) or here (Amazon.co.jp in Japan).
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