Spitball (magazine)
Spitball: The Baseball Literary Magazine is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to baseball literature. Founded by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison, the magazine publishes baseball poetry and short stories and also reviews baseball literature, both fiction and non-fiction.
History
In late 1980, sportswriters Mike Shannon and W. J. "Jim" Harrison, both living in Covington, Kentucky at the time, came up with the idea of a literary baseball magazine while having lunch at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio.Initially dedicated to poetry only, the magazine expanded to include short fiction, prose, art, and book reviews. Also printed in the magazine are rare photographs, articles, and interviews with authors.
After an irregular frequency of issues, the magazine became a quarterly publication before several decades. In recent years, to save cost, it has switched to being published biannually.