Idle Pleasures by George Alec Effinger

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1983. Berkley. 1st Printing.

THE ALIENS' FIRST WORDS WERE "LET'S PLAY BALL!"

• Ice hockey with an entire planet for a rink
• A chess competition where the rules change with every move
• No-holds-barred basketball with the blue Cobae

And other stories from the Wide Universe of Sports by one of today's most astonishing Masters of Imaginative Fiction

• Naked to the Invisible Eye - (1973)
• From Downtown at the Buzzer - (1977)
• The Exempt - (1977)
• 25 Crunch Split Right on Two - (1975)
• The Pinch Hitters - (1979) - (variant of The Pinch-Hitters)
• Breakaway - (1981)
• The Horse with One Leg - (1974)
• Heartstop - (1974)