In the tradition of such baseball classics as A League of Their Own andBull Durham comes a hip novel set in the year 2000, about Louise "Balls" Gehrig, the first woman to play Major League baseball. Filled with comedy, romance, suspense, and baseball.
Gorman Bechard is the author of seven novels: THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, UNWOUND (under the pseudonym Jonathan Baine), NINTH SQUARE, THE HAZMAT DIARY, GOOD NEIGHBORS, BALLS and the upcoming NOT SO PRETTY.
He directed/wrote the indie features FRIENDS (WITH BENEFITS) (2009) and YOU ARE ALONE (2006), the horror comedy cult-classic PSYCHOS IN LOVE (1986), as well as the award winning shorts OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR ARE FURTHER THAN THEY APPEAR (2003) and THE PRETTY GIRL (2000), and most recently completed COLOR ME OBSESSED, A FILM ABOUT THE REPLACEMENTS, which Rolling Stone named one of the seven best music docs of the year, and the Village Voice called "the rock version of Rashomon."
Bechard is in pre-production on ONE NIGHT STAND, a psycho-sexual horror film, and BROKEN SIDE OF TIME, a dark drama set in the world of internet modeling, which are parts two and three of his planned ALONE trilogy, as well as two feature-length documentaries: WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? his Archers of Loaf concert film; and PIZZA, A LOVE STORY, a documentary on the holy trinity of pizza joints, Sally's, Pepe's, and Modern in Bechard's home town of New Haven, Connecticut.
In his non-existent free time, Bechard enjoys sitting at home with his wife Kristine, and their two labs (Springsteen and Phoebe Caulfield), watching bad TV (he's a self-proclaimed "Survivor" junkie) and good films.
