![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot, yet sufficiently geeky to pay homage to the epic struggles of ill-fated ballplayers such as Steve Blass, Steve Sax and Mackey Sasser, this is a book that both Yale-president-turned-baseball-commissioner A. Erudite enough to reference Herman Melville, Homer and T.S. But you'd have a hard time making a strong argument for any of these as the Great American Baseball Novel.Ĭhad Harbach's delightful debut, "The Art of Fielding," which is equal parts baseball and campus novel, may not turn out to be that book either, but it comes closer to literary Cooperstown than any I've read. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" are probably best known for the baseball movies they inspired. Mark Harris' "Bang the Drum Slowly" and W.P. ![]() Then there have been the highly acclaimed novels, such as Peter Schilling Jr.'s "The End of Baseball" and Mark Winegardner's "The Veracruz Blues," which still have not found a wide audience. Bernard Malamud's "The Natural," Philip Roth's "The Great American Novel," Michael Chabon's "Summerland"). There have been fine works by terrific stylists, which have nevertheless managed to incur the wrath of some baseball purists (e.g. For all that Walt Whitman, Robert Pinsky, John Updike, Roger Angell and their ilk have written about the great American pastime, it's surprising how few novels about baseball have found their way into the canon. ![]()
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