What does Tom Gordon think of "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon?"

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

I tried Googling around for this but couldn’t find anything. Has Tom Gordon ever been asked or given any public statement about his opinion on Stephen King’s book? It portrays him in an extremely good light and puts him name right in the title.

Does anyone know if King told him or got permission (not that he legally needed it, but maybe as a courtesy) to use Gordon’s name in the title?

I’ve always wondered about what kind of reaction Gordon had to such an unsual distinction.
Thanks in advance for any help.

[Cowboy8467]

I wasn’t able to find much, but I did come across this at CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9904/05/Stephen.King/index.html

My idea was to write a kind of fairy-tale, ‘Hansel and Gretel’ without Hansel. My heroine (Trisha) would be a child of divorce living with her mother and maintaining a meaningful connection with her father mostly through their mutual love of baseball and the Boston Red Sox. Lost in the woods, she’d find herself imagining that her favorite Red Sox player was with her, keeping her company and guiding her through the terrible situation in which she found herself. Tom Gordon, #36, would be that player. Gordon is a real pitcher for the Red Sox; without his consent I wouldn’t have wanted to publish the book. He did give it, for which I am deeply grateful.