The Ghost and Josh Gibson by Robert Joseph Ahola
ISBN #1-60513-002-8
#2007-0019
The Cast
- MIRANDA GIBSON: Josh Gibson’s attractive unmarried
sister; a black woman about 30.
- JOSH GIBSON: A massive, powerful (but obviously
ailing) black ballplayer, about 35.
- SATCHEL PAIGE: A tall, lean, nattily attired, black
pitcher of some renown in his 40s.
- ANNOUNCER 1: A younger white announcer a la Bill
Stern.
- ANNOUCER 2: An old, white ball player and baseball
professional.
Synopsis
Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige, both black
and arguably the two greatest baseball players who ever lived, meet on a
warm winter night in 1947 just before Jackie Robinson is brought up to the
Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African American ever to play Major League
Baseball. A poignant last encounter between two baseball legends takes place
when pitcher, Satchel, learns that Josh ("The Black Babe Ruth") is dying of
terminal brain cancer.*
*AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although the baseball records, career highlights,
professional association and personal friendship of these two are
established, some details have been altered for dramatic impact.
The Setting
Scene 1: Announcer’s Booth. Radio Show.
Scene 2: Josh Gibson’s Living Room in Georgia. March. 1947.
Scene 3: The Same Living Room in October 1948.
Scene 3A: (Simultaneously) Announcers Booth on the fly space.
Author Biography
 Robert Joseph Ahola is an author, playwright, producer and director who
lives in Malibu, California. As CEO of Galahad Films, he has written and
produced over 300 films, commercials and documentaries for television,
satellite, and private distribution. He has scripted ten screenplays,
including GODWIN, WORLD CLASS/The Jerry Quarry Story (in development),
Billingsgate, An Accident of Birth and One Hour of Madness and Joy, based on
Walt Whitman’s The Leaves of Grass, (currently in post-production). An
environmentalist and animal rights activist, Mr. Ahola is an
author/co-author of thirteen published books including
The Silent Healer
(now in its fifth edition), Delusion is Good,
I, Dragon and The Return of
the Hummingbird Wizard. Robert has also authored a number of published or
produced plays, including Dr. Max Love, The Year of the Tiger, HIGH TEA/With
His Excellency, Judas Agonistes, The Last Othello, The Ghost and Josh
Gibson, A Meerkat Christmas, The Decline and Fall of Us All, SCOREKEEPER, and Pavlov’s Cats.
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