Baseball and Sci-Fi Make Quite the Team

Science fiction author Rick Wilber is best known for writing about baseball, including a series of alternate history stories about real-life catcher-turned-spy Moe Berg. Wilber's preoccupation with the game is understandable given his upbringing. "My father was a major league baseball player," Wilber says in Episode 412 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "Then he was a minor league manager--AAA manager--for many years. So I grew up in dugouts and clubhouses of major league teams through the 1950s into the '60s."