The Chambliss Tapes [Kindle Edition]

Donald Capone (Author)

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Product Description

Short story, 7,314 words. Time travel story based around NY Yankees Chris Chambliss' historic pennant-winning homerun in the 1976 American League Championship Series. A man (Jon) who works for Sports Illuminated, a time travel agency that documents famous events in sports, travels back in time from 2006 to 1976 to document Chambliss' famous homerun. But Jon has another agenda—to save his identical twin brother who died in an accident.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 33 KB
• Publisher: Rebel Press (June 17, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002DR2YAM
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Donald Capone's stories have appeared in Edgar Literary Magazine, Word Riot, Weekly Reader's READ magazine, Thieves Jargon, as well as the anthologies See You Next Tuesday; Skive Quarterly 6; The Ampersand volume 4; Ten Modern Short Stories 2010 (which Amazon mysteriously refuses to list on my Author Page); Sudden Flash Youth; and Rebellion: New Voices of Fiction, which he also edited, and which was a finalist in the 2006 USA Book News awards. His comic novel, Into the Sunset, (available both in print and e-book versions) was a semi-finalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Short-Short Time Travel Adventure, October 6, 2010

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Beth Kristen Nehme "Book Lover" (Miami,FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Chambliss Tapes (Kindle Edition)

This is a nice little time travel adventure about a young man who is compelled to go back in time to rescue his twin brother who died at the age of four. I like the premise that the trips were being funded by an agency that wanted to record famous points in sports history. Also, there was a nice take on the limits of what could be fixed by time-travel.

On the negative side, I don't think enough attention was paid to the consequences of the trip. To me, their should have been more consequences to the individual's personal relationships from living 30 years outside his time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great short story, December 21, 2010

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Sleeve Sprout - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Chambliss Tapes (Kindle Edition)

Definitely a new, fresh take on a great theme...time travel. Wasn't planning on reading it in one sitting but it was too good to put down. Looking forward to reading some more of his short stories.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Do you like Time Travel tales & sports??, December 29, 2011

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Michael Devito "Mike CCD" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Chambliss Tapes (Kindle Edition)

One of the 1st things I did when I got my new Kindle Fire was look for some free books to download ala my Amazon Prime membership to test out the e reading capabilities of the tablet. One of the first ones I saw was The Chambliss Tapes. I was intrigued by the time travel premise and the involvement of the famous moment in Yankee history. I thought this was a fun story and was a good quick read. I also loved reliving the Chambliss Home Run through the story. All in all, very well done. It has it's faults, but it was fun... especially for free!!!