Ex-MLB star Tom Gordon talks becoming subject of Stephen King novel

Former MLB star Tom Gordon talks to Fox News Digital about being a subject in a Stephen King novel.

Tom "Flash" Gordon has an impressive resume: He played 21 years in Major League Baseball, was a three-time All-Star, and recorded 54 consecutive saves, which set an MLB record at the time. 

On top of his impressive MLB career, esteemed author Stephen King also based a book on him, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon." King, a big Boston Red Sox fan, showed up at Fenway Park to observe Gordon.

"Stephen King, this great author, his wife (Tabitha), they're coming to the ballpark every single day," Gordon told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "And from my understanding now, I didn't know this, just, you know, coming out of the dugout and sitting for a moment before I go to the bullpen in the sixth. I didn't know that they watched everything I did."

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Former Boston Red Sox right-handed pitcher Tom "Flash" Gordon is honored on the field during a pregame ceremony before a Triple-A Minor League Baseball game between the Lehigh Valley IronPigs and the Worcester Red Sox at Polar Park in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 18, 2023. (Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"I didn't know that they sat there and just kinda say, you know, let's just see if this is the right guy for this, this moment, and eventually it came to that. I became the guy for that moment."

Gordon said Stephen and Tabitha King came to his hometown to see if he was the right person for the book. 

"They came and met me at my hometown and ate at a restaurant called Olympic Restaurant. And she told Stephen, she says, Flash is the right person for this. Stephen told me, he said, when she said that there