The Wandering Warriors Author:Alan Smale, Rick Wilber Alternate history and time travel, where a barnstorming baseball team from the 1940s is brought back to third-century Rome to teach the Romans how to play baseball and, if they're lucky, live to tell the tale. — The book holds two additional stories, both reprints, one by each author. "A Trade in Serpents", by Alan Smale... more », features an alternate-history version of Benjamin Franklin, and "Stephen to Cora to Joe, or, the Truth as I Know it", by Rick Wilber features a ghostly Stephen Crane arriving in an open boat to play modern day amateur baseball and dispense some wisdom to a disconsolate writer.
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The Wandering Warriors (2018) / novella by Alan Smale and Rick Wilber; a 1940s barnstorming baseball team, led by retired baseball player and spy Moe Berg, is transported from rural Illinois to Ancient Rome, just after the death of Emperor Septimius Severus.
A Trade in Serpents (2007) / short story by Alan Smale; an alternate-history version of Benjamin Franklin.
Stephen to Cora to Joe, or, the Truth As I Know It / novelette by Rick Wilber (variant of Stephen to Cora to Joe, or, the Truth As I Know It, or, Shifty Paradigms: The Use of Literary Icons and Sports Motifs in Speculative Fiction 2000): a ghostly Stephen Crane arriving in an open boat to play modern day amateur baseball and dispense some wisdom to a disconsolate writer.« less