You may know that our new reliever, Tom Gordon, featured heavily in a book by Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. In it, a girl gets lost on a hiking trip, and uses her idol, Gordon, to help keep her morale up as she tries to get out of the woods. King is a noted Red Sox fan, but looking over his bibliography, it seems that Gordon may not be the first Diamondbacks player to have been involved in one of Steve's works...

• The Dark Tower - Tony Clark
• Insomnia - Jon Rauch
  
• Bag of Bones - Juan Cruz
• The Chris Snyder trilogy:
  Dreamcatcher - before his little "accident"
  Misery - during
  Christine - afterwards...
• Sometimes They Come Back - D.Baxter
• Desperation - Russ Ortiz
• The Running Man - Tony Womack
  
• Silver Bullet - Chad Qualls
• Firestarter - Matt Mantei
• The Long Walk - Conor Jackson