Arts & Culture Sep. 10, 2010 - 06:41AM JST ( 3 )

From the authors of the bestselling “Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends & Eerie Events comes the sequel Field of Screams,” that covers both Major League Baseball and Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league.

Like its predecessor, the book draws from more than 1,000 interviews with current and former major leaguers, revealing more of the sometimes bone-chilling, sometimes heartwarming, sometimes hilarious stories that make their way around clubhouses, team buses and water coolers.

We’ll learn the untold truth about the buried Red Sox jersey at the new Yankee Stadium and the televised Cubs exorcism of Wrigley Field. We’ll hear spine-tingling stories about the corridors underneath Anaheim Stadium and sentimental ghost stories about the late Ty Cobb in Detroit. Babe Ruth’s granddaughter and dozens of others share Ruthian ghostlore. And Pittsburgh Pirates players share stories about the notoriously haunted Roberto Clemente dorm room.

Casting a wider net than “Haunted Baseball,” authors Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon explore rumors of ghosts, voodoo, evil spirits, “monster forces” and shift-shaping demons in Asia and Latin America.

The book includes ghost stories shared by Japanese players about team dormitories. There is a humorous story about Ichiro and his high school teammates; visiting team hotel stories from NPB players; Japanese spiritual traditions and cultural differences, as observed by both Japanese and American ballplayers;

“Field of Screams” captures the soul of the game and memorializes its legendary players and historic moments. From haunted hotels to ballpark ghosts to departed Hall-of-Famers who don’t know the game is over, “Field of Screams” is chock full of fun, quirky stories that will delight skeptics and believers alike.