Instead, it’s really 'Nitinat tribe shaman calls spirits home.'īut what does that mean? Dominic remembers that there was a young Nitinat girl who died, her body never recovered from the trash dump, in…you guessed it, 1963. Because I would have gone and arrested the first Cal Sprtome I found. Or, the Nitinat tribe shaman, Cal Sprtome. Jackie Cannon said “NITINATSHAMANCALSPRTOME.'

They think it’s gibberish until they sit down to really listen to it. Though he’s a rambling, incoherent mess (as usual), the group asks him questions, using a tape recorder so they can play it back later.

I don’t know what “sheet restraining” is, but it sounds like the softest, most comfortable way to be restrained. The section starts with Dominic, Tournier, and his chauffeur/first class detective, Lambert, looking for Jackie Cannon, hoping the old alcoholic can shed some light onto how the 1963 championship team ‘won death.’ They search around until they find him “sheet restrained” in a detox center for his addiction to alcohol. The curse will be never being able to tell people, “I once read a book about a baseball werewolf”), things really heated up this time around.Ĭheck out the week one and week two discussions to get caught up. For those reading along (and I curse those who aren’t. The penultimate discussion of Frank King's Southpaw, about a werewolf terrorizing a small baseball community. Sadly, there is no Adam Laroche in this book. His pose is sharp, clear, untouched by rhetoric or clich?.(Adam Laroche as a werewolf. THE SEASON OF THE WEREWOLF All the evidence suggests that there is something out there that doesn't care if the team wins or loses. For the first time in 25 years, the Wolves have it together. 'Bunny' Bunsen has inherited the team, and with a sharp business sense, has rebuilt the organization. THE DEADLY SEASON The summer of '88 is the season it all might happen again. It was the year he managed the Wolves to the league championship. SOUTHPAW THE BIG LEAGUE HORROR NOVEL THE WINNING SEASON Dominic Lombardi remembers the summer of '63. THE SEASON OF THE WEREWOLF All the evidence suggests that there is something out.

Southpaw by Frank King