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- O'Brien Córdoba, Esteban. "Contact Hitter." Aethlon 19.1 (Fall 2001): 1-13. At a series of ballgames in Mexico, a group of men discuss gringo ballplayers (including the title character) and other aspects of life.
Unusual story; the author (also a character who tells stories within the story) is fictional, a pseudonym for the American writer Stuart Levine.
- Øye, Robin. "Michigan Mashers." Kids form a sandlot team.
- Øye, Robin. "Night Game." (2000) Friends sneak into the tarp at Wrigley Field and spend the night in the park.
- O'Hara, John. "Bread Alone." In Pipe Night (1945). Repr. Lewis. A fan takes his son to a ballgame.
Father and son are both African-American, and the story is a sort of literary slumming; it patronizes its characters.
- Frank O'Rourke (1916-1989) has his own page in the Guide.
- Owens, D.C. "Deep Short." Aethlon 15.2 (Spring 1998): 81-88. An ex-high school ballplayer, now a school custodian, muses on the baseball career his son is about to throw away.
The theme of life's losers is not an upbeat one but is creditably handled here.
