From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy, the best Major League baseball player to become erased from the overall game.

Also the most die-hard baseball fans don’t understand the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the overall game offers ever noticed, but today no-one remembers his name. He was the first–and only–player to possess his existence completely taken off the record books. Even his team is usually long overlooked, about Blockade Billy barely a footnote in the game’s background.

Every effort was designed to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional football, and with good reason. Blockade Billy experienced a secret darker than any tablet or injection that may cause a scandal in sports today. His top secret was much, very much worse… in support of Stephen King, probably the most gifted storyteller of our age group, can reveal the truth to the globe, once and for all.

Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications about April 20, 2010 like a $25.00 limited-edition hardcover, Stephen King and Cemetery Dance possess made an arrangement with Scribner to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of Blockade Billy, with an on-sale day of May 25th, the same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will be accessible in every U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the Scribner book as well as the Simon & Schuster audiobook will include a reward short story (‘Morality’).