Praise for Extra Innings

“He’s baaack! Ninety years after his death Teddy Ballgame retakes center stage, swinging a bat for the Red Sox, flying jets for the Marines and swearing up a blue streak. If you like baseball, science fiction or a good thriller, Extra Innings is the book for you. It is Shoeless Joe Hardy meets Isaac Asimov. No need to wait to see if the science of cryonics will bring Ted Williams back to life. Bruce Spitzer already has.”
            --Dick Flavin, Poet Laureate of the Boston Red Sox, featured with Ted Williams in David Halberstam’s best-selling book THE TEAMMATES

“Over the years, many people have wondered just how much greater Ted Williams would have been if he were not called away to war, or if he had played in another era. Now, thanks to Bruce Spitzer, we know.”
            --Jim Lonborg, Cy Young Award-winning Red Sox pitcher and member of the 1967 “Dream Team”

“I knew Ted Williams, Ted Williams was a friend of mine—this is Ted Williams.”
            --Bob Lobel, Boston sportscaster who once interviewed Ted Williams, Larry Bird and Bobby Orr together in the same studio

“Bruce Spitzer has reverse-engineered the brain of Ted Williams, reanimated a great American, and created a novel with memories intact.”
            --Ray Kurzweil, inventor/author/futurist

“Ooh-rah! for Extra Innings, and boy what a ride. Ted Williams needed no more heroics to add to his service record flying in WWII and Korea, but Bruce Spitzer gives him a stunning new mission in Extra Innings. The novel and the author deserve a special salute for highlighting the leadership of the real man for a new generation, and brilliantly imagining his return to contribute once more to the proud tradition of the United States Marine Corps. Semper Fidelis, ‘Caveman.’”
           --Col. Andrew J. Ley, USMCR (ret.), F-4 and A-4 driver, and former CO of VMA 322

"Ted Williams is back on deck thanks to Extra Innings."
           --Ira Kantor, The Boston Herald

"In bookstores, readers got a glimpse of a world in which another icon, Ted Williams, lives again. Bruce E. Spitzer's Extra Innings imagines the Kid revived, in 2092, using cryonics. So, what's Williams up to? Batting against "Botwinder" robots and piloting jets in a war."
           --Alexandra Fenwick, Sports Illustrated Magazine 

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Extra Innings: "Sheer ballsiness"
           --Matthew Reed Baker, Boston Magazine

"What is especially noteworthy about this rookie author’s novel is the meticulous, nearly obsessive, attention to authenticity, particularly the fine grain details in the life of Ted Williams, the game of baseball, and the training and combat experiences of Marine fighter pilots. . .The descriptions of Ted Williams, the near-perfect hitter–his life, his personality, his speech patterns, his values, his attitude, his style–are 'pitch perfect.'"
           --Earl Nash, BoSox Injection