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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, SCOREKEEPER, and Pavlov’s Cats. And he has recently penned a new comedy in two acts, The Decline and Fall of Us All.

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The Ghost and Josh Gibson