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★★★★★ (See the PEBA on $25 a Day) An excellent story set in a fantasy baseball world filled with depth and intrigue.
— Brian Hazelwood (Amazon Review)

★★★★★ (Chasing the Setting Sun) An imaginative, outrageous and often hilarious journey into a universe of Japanese baseball, political corruption and sic-fi madness. A thoroughly remarkable read, never dull, always unexpected, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.
— Bob Mayberry (Amazon Reviewer)

★★★★ (See the PEBA on $25 a Day) A cross between Vacation and Major League.
— Mark Nawrocki (Amazon Reviewer)

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The doping scandal, the egos, the money.

Everyone remembers how the face of baseball changed back in 2006—how it all just collapsed. But, of course, baseball itself would not die. How could it? And after a season or two of discontent, up sprang the Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance (PEBA).

Today Casey Neal and his buddy Don-o are fresh-faced college graduates unencumbered by commitments like summer jobs or girlfriends. On a lark, they tour every big-league park in the PEBA and find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue and scandal that threatens the very heart of professional baseball.

Against all this, Casey is trying to figure out who he’s going to be. And Don-o?

Well, Don-o is something altogether different now, isn’t he?

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CHASING THE SETTING SUN

Fraud, deceit, and greed.

They have already changed the face of baseball in Japan, and are threatening to engulf the sport across the world. Six seasons have passed since Casey Neal and his friend Don-o saved the game in the United States. Now Don-o is gone, and Casey is a baseball reporter who is alone and trying once again to find himself, all while immersed in a culture he doesn’t understand.

While he chases the story, discovers fellow baseball fans in Japan’s chief inspector Yuni Ichihara, and Diaki Matsui (a metal worker from Tokyo’s industrial complex). Together they deal with such strangeness as international organized crime rings, Yōkai spirits, quantum physics, and … well … pickled everything.

This time the stakes are global.

Can Casey’s team manage to save baseball once again?

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FOR THE HEART OF THE GAME

Battle-worn sportswriter Casey Neal has seen things that would make a quantum physicist reach for the whiskey bottle. He’s crossed timelines, faced down crime lords, and saved baseball more times than his therapist will ever know. But when his old friend Don-o drags him through a wormhole into a world where baseball’s stats are disappearing and managers are vanishing without a trace, Casey finds himself chasing something bigger than any story he’s ever written.

Someone is stealing the heart of the game itself.

From the neon-lit sports bars of 2061 to the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley Field in 1961, Casey, Don-o, and sharp-witted waitress, Denise, must unravel a conspiracy that threatens not just one league, but every version of baseball across space and time.

Because without the game, nothing else matters.

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THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF SHOJIRO SANO’S BATS

(A short story)

Inspector Yuni Ichihara loves his local baseball team, but when his phone rings one morning it puts him on a case that will send him to the darkest places of that love. Inspector Ichihara has faith in his city, you see? He has hopes for his team. But can he believe in himself?

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Ron Collins grew up in the baseball Bermuda Triangle made by Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis. He’s been a baseball fan for as long as he can remember, which is longer than he would like to admit. At various times he has considered himself a fan of the Cubs, Reds, and Cardinals.  Yes, the Cubs and the Cardinals.  Go figure. 

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The PEBA and the BBA are worldwide Online OOTP leagues.  My thanks go to the commissioners and the rest of the ownership of these leagues for their support and encouragement in putting this project together. If you like baseball simulations, you might wander over and check them out!