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)