The Legend of Cyclone Young

by Cathleen Humphreys

Overview

Centennial Day weekend, 1876. Celebrations are jamming local railroad service leaving the mighty Pittsburgh Alleghenies baseball team stranded in Newcomerstown, Ohio. To stay 'practiced up,' the Alleghenies have challenged local village ballplayers to a friendly game. But, this will be no ordinary ‘friendly game.’ From up and downriver, hay wagons drawn by horses at breakneck speed flood onto Hansen’s playing field – 3,000 anxious souls ready to watch farmers and store clerks take on the 'biggest game' of their lives.

At first, the local river valley team shows no signs of life until, suddenly – below threatening rain clouds – the 'Valleys' eke 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 but 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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153664026
Publisher:	Ken Ramsley
Publication date:	08/04/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	148 KB

About the Author

Conjuring a sense of the plausible, Ken Ramsley produces fiction and non-fiction with a mission to explore our place in the Universe. According to Ken, “whether exploring the Moons of Mars or human nature, thoughtful imagination is almost always the best way to recognize new territory.” Informing his fiction-writing, Ken is a commercial product designer, business consultant, and academic scholar. At Brown University, Ken studies, lectures, and publishes on topics related to planetary science with a focus on the smaller moons and asteroids of the Solar System. In the School of Engineering, Ken also advises and lectures on product design, entrepreneurship, spacecraft systems, the space radiation environment, and orbital mechanics. Prior to his association with Brown University, Ken was the Chief Engineer for spacecraft electronics and software development at AeroAstro, Inc., where he designed circuit boards and optical components for seven space satellites currently on orbit.