George simply hasn't been the same since his run-in with Ray Lewis. Not anytime soon, and will not have the opportunity to drive the ball down the field in the next Super Bowl. He won't have any ballads written about him, Later, Eddie George had his heart stolen by Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis. And Elway couldn't do nothing about winning no Super Bowl, not alone, not until Terrell Davis showed up." Ignorant of this future back then, I said to Stevie McNair, "You'll need Eddie, one day soon, Stevie. Eddie George was about to become a vic - Ray Lewis' personal property. Wondered if Eddie was an egomaniac who believed all roads led to him. While I spoke to McNair, I (we?) noticed Eddie George watching. I went to Nashville and spoke to McNair, not at so much length, but enough to see if he could one day become something like a poor man's John Elway, a bull-necked manimal, who, unfortunately, was slowly getting busted up, the chinks and chunks being taken out of him from playing in the same division with Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens.īut, as I did not have to remind him, he'd built his mother a big, new, roomy, wonderful house, on the very same land where she had once sharecropped, and this is no small thing when you grow up black and po (not poor) in the Mississippi Delta. Did he have another one of those Super Bowlĭrives to the 1-yard-line in him? I had found that as exciting as hell. Went to the camp of the Tennessee Titans last season, to reason with Stevie McNair, from Waydownyonder, Miss-sippi. But do know a thing or two about chemistry, bad ball karma. Myself, personally - don't know much about history. You aren't a real man until you get your heart broken. They say you aren't a real man until you get your heart stole. You don't want that to happen, baby.Įddie George knows that wherever he goes, Ray Lewis will be waiting.ĭon't care if it's some pulchritudinous, truly merciless woman like Laila Ali, or if it's somebody else you believe deep down can whup yo ass. pretty darn good with some nice, weird bits," and notes "a lunkheadedness to Rald I found fun." "There's a creative exuberance to these stories that make me wish Ball had carried on," he observes, concluding "Dave Ritzlin has done a tremendous service in getting this book into - Beware the thief of heartsĮSPN Network: | NBA.com | ABCSports | EXPN | FANTASY Howard could have been a solid talent had he continued writing." Vredenburgh finds the Duar story "not-great, but. They aren't as polished as those of his model, Robert E. 1941)įletcher Vredenburgh, reviewing the collection on, writes "Ball was one of the earliest authors to show that S&S wasn't just something a few specific authors wrote, but an actual genre that anyone else with a heart for it could do." "Ball's stories." he notes, "are the works of someone still finding his feet. "The Werewolf Howls" (from Weird Tales v."The Swine of Ææa" (from Weird Tales v."The Goddess Awakes" (from Weird Tales v."The Thief of Forthe" (from Weird Tales v."Duar the Accursed" (from Weird Tales v.
The pieces following feature a modern-day quest for the legendary island of Circe, a fantastic detective yarn, and a traditional horror story. Howard, and were written in homage to him. The first story, featuring the barbarian adventurer Duar, and the second and third, featuring Rald the thief, were among the earliest sword and sorcery stories published after the pioneering work of Robert E. It gathers together all of Ball's published fiction, originally published in the 1930s and 1940s in Weird Tales, for the first time. The book collects four novelettes and two short stories by the author, together with an introduction by the publisher, D. It was first published in paperback and ebook by DMR Books in March 2018.
The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories is a collection of sword and sorcery and other fantasy short stories by American writer Clifford Ball.
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