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The Pinch-Hitters

by George Alec Effinger

Sandor Courane and four other up-and-coming sf writers are snagged from their hotel at a 1979 convention in New Orleans only to wake up the next morning as five insignificant major league ballplayers in 1954—and the aging Sandor is hitting only .221.
I felt angry. I wanted to show that kid, but there wasn’t anything I could show him, with the possible exception of sentence structure.
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“The Pinch-Hitters,” in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1979.
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