Haunted Baseball
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Haunted Baseball
- Providence, Rhode Island, US
- Last Login: 1/4/2010
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Details
- Status: Married
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Seekonk, MA
- Orientation: Straight
- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Schools
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Union College
- Schenectady,NY
- Graduated: 1987
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Psychology
1983 to 1987
Blurbs
About me:
I'm Dan Gordon, co-author of the bestseller "Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends & Eerie Events," now in its fifth printing, and the regionally popular "Cape Encounters: Contemporary Cape Cod Ghosts Stories."
"Haunted Baseball" is a collection of otherworldly stories gathered from interviews with over 800 players, stadium personnel, front office folks and fans. Our book explores the sometimes amusing, sometimes spooky connection between baseball and the paranormal. From haunted ballparks to team hotel poltergeists to departed Hall-of-Famers who don't know the game is over, "Haunted Baseball" is chock full of fun, quirky stories that will please skeptics and believers alike. For more information, feel free to visit our website www.hauntedbaseball.com.
In "Cape Encounters," residents of Cape Cod share stories about ghosts who descend staircases that no longer exist, kiss sleeping women, flip theater seats, fold laundry, and join musicians onstage. While seeking out only the mysterious, my co-author Gary Joseph and I instead met intelligent, thoughtful individuals who related their stories with humor and insight.
What these ordinary Cape Codders have to say may challenge your notions of haunted houses. Their stories also capture the unique charm of the Cape—a combination of tradition, natural beauty, maritime lore. . . and mystery. Enter the Cape's historic, soulful homes and discover a world in which the past is very much alive.
For more information on "Cape Encounters" or to check out our "Scary Cape Creatures" card game and "Cape Cod Haunted Map," visit our WEBSITE - www.capeencounters.com.
Selected Quotes from HAUNTED BASEBALL
“You just feel like the ghosts of Yankee Stadium are overlooking the guys in pinstripes.”
- Alex Rodriguez
“They say it’s haunted. I’ve heard that the walls breathe in and out.”
- Todd Jones
“Balls go into the vines [at Wrigley Field] and days later, no balls. It’s weird … they just disappear.”
- Terry Adams
“The elevator door opens up and a gust of wind goes past us. I had chills.”
- CC Sabathia
“I don’t know if it’s Babe, Lou, or whoever. But it’s not Derek Jeter coming to bat, but somebody else.”
- Chipper Jones
“They said that they built the stadium on old Indian burial grounds. That’s why a lot of bad things happened.”
- Troy Glaus
“The ghosts take over on who is going to win the ball game.”
- Rickey Henderson
“So you wonder is that a message from Jimmy Warfield, or if that was Jimmy Warfield’s ghost walking around.”
- Omar Vizquel
“Not to get too much into clairvoyant, or mystical, or whatever. But yeah, I think that there was definitely an energy there.”
- Mike Piazza
“My roommate wakes me up in the middle of the night and says he saw a ghost above him. He was freaking out. So I got a big glob of toothpaste and put a big cross on the door and I told him, ‘Is this good enough for you? ‘Cause I’m going back to sleep.’”
- Michael Young
“[The spirits] helped out. Maybe they helped push some of our balls over the fence and got us some of the right hops and the right bounces.”
- Derek Jeter
“That whole night I was wide-eyed.”
- Coco Crisp
“I was awake and I was trying to move and I just couldn’t. I passed the time thinking, ‘A ghost is holding me down.’”
- Johnny Damon
Rave Reviews for HAUNTED BASEBALL
“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.”
- Library Journal
“…a must read for fans of baseball and ghosts.”
- Chronogram Magazine
“…contains a wealth of anecdotes that have never been told…an entertaining and eerie look at our national pastime.”
- Society for American Baseball Research
“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.”
- New York Sun
“The book raises some interesting questions. Just don’t read it in an old hotel room.”
- The Tampa Tribune
“… a catalog of haunted clubhouses and ghostly outfields … keep[s] baseball’s legacy of weirdness alive.”
- Rocky Mountain News
“… has the supernatural bases covered.”
- Boston Herald
“The stories are so diverse and so spread out over time you realize that you are not dealing with crop circles or the furry trout – these are not hoaxes or urban legends, but stories with actual substance to them.
Whether you believe in ghosts or not, you will walk away from the book with a new appreciation of baseball history.”
- The Sports Review
“Haunted houses are so passé when there are haunted baseball fields screaming out for attention.”
- Herald News, West Patterson, NJ
”Whether or not you’re a fan, Haunted Baseball entertains.”
- Cape Cod Chronicle
Rave Reviews for CAPE ENCOUNTERS
Kirkus Discoveries, August 26, 2005
“In this winsome compendium of local lore, ghosts become a marvelous household amenity.”
Ghostvillage.com, March 14, 2005
“A well-crafted book, this should be in your home library for ghost-reference material.”
Ghost Magazine, Fall 2004
“…a charming and thoughtful collection…one comes away with a feeling that the dead and living are just going about their daily business, sharing common ground, from town halls to centuries-old homes.”
Lawrence Brown, Columnist, Cape Cod Times “A marvelous collection of stories, some spooky, all interesting, and some unexpectedly touching.”
New London Day, October 27, 2004 ”If you're a skeptic, be warned: you might be converted.”
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