Field of Screams
Altogether over 1,000 current and former major leaguers were interviewed for Field of Screams and our critically acclaimed 2007 book Haunted Baseball.
The Field of Screams roster includes Bronson Arroyo, Jason Bay, Adrian Beltre, Barry Bonds, Jeff Cirillo, Bobby Cox, Carlos Delgado, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jason Giambi, Roy Halladay, Orel Hershiser, Torii Hunter, Derek Jeter, Matt Kemp, Tim Lincecum, Evan Longoria, Hideki Matsui, Aramis Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, John Smoltz, Geovany Soto, Alan Trammell, Billy Wagner, Jered Weaver, Dave Winfield, and David Wright.
The # of players sharing ghost or curse stories in Field of Screams: 142
The # sharing firsthand stories: 71
Total # of supernatural tales in Field of Screams: 232
Total # never reported before in the media: 211
Total # of nations with stories (proving that baseball is indeed an international paranormal pastime): 9
Total # of current and former Japan League players with stories: 27
Others interviewed for the book: Linda Ruth Tosetti (Babe Ruth’s granddaughter), Ernie Harwell, Ken Casey (lead vocalist of the Dropkick Murphy’s), and dozens of noted sportscasters and writers. Also quoted directly or indirectly: President Ronald Reagan, Jack Brickhouse, Babe Ruth, Roberto Clemente, Hank Steinbrenner, National Baseball Hall of Fame staff, and perhaps a few ghosts.
Field of Screams includes hundreds of never-before-revealed stories, including:
- The first media mention ever of the former Tiger Stadium in Detroit being haunted;
- New interviews and anecdotes, claiming the National Baseball Hall of Fame is haunted;
- The truth about what's really buried in the new Yankee Stadium, from bad-luck charms to human ashes;
- Spooky tales set in the corridors underneath Anaheim's Angel Stadium;
- Firsthand ghost stories concerning Babe Ruth, and mystical stories from Ruth's granddaughter Linda Ruth Tosetti;
- The latest attempts to lift the Chicago Cubs' legendary Curse of the Billy Goat at Wrigley Field;
- A Florida League game where a ball seems to vanish into thin air;
- Good luck charms from around the majors (LA Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox), including a shared "good luck thong" in the Yankees clubhouse, with never-before-heard, side-splitting observations and insights from players;
- First looks at baseball ghost stories and superstitions from Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Taiwan, South Korea, Nicaragua and Cuba;
- The heartwarming story of a sick girl's gift to a major leaguer ... and the seemingly magical impact it had on both of them;
- And more!
Copies of Field of Screams: Haunted Tales from the Baseball Diamond, the Locker Room and Beyond are rolling off the press and already in stores or online through IndieBound.org, Barnesandnoble.com, Borders.com and Amazon.com.
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Media Praise for HAUNTED BASEBALL: Ghosts, Curses, legends & Eerie Events
Library Journal
“Like a pair of ‘ghost busters,’ Gordon and Bradley have mined a rich underground of bizarre and often unexplainable tales to liven up our reading.”
Herald News,
“Haunted houses are so passé when there are haunted baseball fields screaming for our attention.”
“Authors Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon talked to seemingly every Yankee alive about all the ones who aren't, and how they hang around the stadium, lending ectoplasmic assistance.”
The
“The book raises some interesting questions. Just don’t read it in an old hotel room.”
“… a catalog of haunted clubhouses and ghostly outfields … keep[s] baseball’s legacy of weirdness alive.”
The
“… has the supernatural bases covered.”
The Sports Review
“Whether you believe in ghosts or not, you will walk away from the book with a new appreciation of baseball history.”
