A baseball novel by the best-selling author that includes an excellent basic guide to the game
Baseball Fiction
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You are sure to know the film Field of Dreams, but have you read the novel that it is based on? If not, you should.
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Curse? There ain’t no stinking Chicago Cubs Curse by James Wolfe and Mary Ann Presman
by Matt Smithby Matt SmithA review of a collection of short stories that highlight the different ways in which sports and games form a backdrop to life and bring people together
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Book Reviews
Book Review: The Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover
by Matt Smithby Matt SmithOur latest book review looks as an engrossing novel about a man who becomes obsessed with his own baseball game
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(Bison Books, 1984) 350 pages Mark Harris’ book Bang the Drum Slowly is used by many as a yardstick against which you can judge the quality of a baseball novel. It…
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(Ballantine Books, 1991), 470 pages. The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 have an important place in the history of baseball. As the first all-professional team, they can be said to…
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(Bison Books, 1984) 243 pages First published in 1956, Bang the Drum Slowly is often referred to in lists of the great baseball novels. This emotional story has been adapted…
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With 2430 games played each regular season and up to 41 in the postseason, it is almost inevitable that baseball will throw up “stories that you couldn’t script” each year. This…