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    Pick-Off Play
    Pick-Off Play
    Ebook29 pages21 minutes

    Pick-Off Play

    By Troy Soos

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    "Pick-Off Play" is a Mickey Rawlings historical baseball mystery story set in 1913. Rawlings has appeared in six best-selling mystery novels. This is his first appearance in a short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroy Soos
    Release dateJun 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301970247
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      Good baseball story with a twist at the very end.

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    Reviews of Troy Soos’s Mystery Novels

    Full of life. – New York Times

    Baseball and mystery team up for a winner. – USA Today

    A richly atmospheric journey through time. – Booklist

    Rawlings turns double plays and solves murders with equal grace. – Publishers Weekly

    An entertaining double play. . . The plot will appeal to mystery fans, baseball purists will appreciate Soos’s attention to detail. – Orlando Sentinel

    A perfect marriage between baseball and mystery fiction. – Mystery Readers Journal

    You don’t have to be a baseball fan to love this marvelous historical series. – Meritorious Mysteries

    Equal parts baseball and mystery are the perfect proportion. – Robert B. Parker

    Authentic old-time baseball atmosphere and absorbing stories. Troy Soos captures the period perfectly. – Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Their Times

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    Copyright 2012 Troy Soos

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    Pick-Off Play

    From where I sat—kneeled, actually, in the on-deck circle neat the Beaumont Oilers’ dugout—it looked like Archie Hines was out by a mile. The five or six hundred fans scattered about Magnolia Ball Park’s weather-beaten grandstand probably saw the play the same way. If so, we were all wrong. The plate umpire’s arm was extended toward first base, awarding Hines the bag. The only thing that prevented him from taking it was the fact that he was dead.

    I’d been coached since childhood to keep my eyes on the ball, and that’s exactly what I had done, watching the Houston Buffaloes’ third baseman as he scooped up the two-hopper and threw to first. I hadn’t noticed that

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