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Two of his books were finalists for the Casey Award: Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever, an account of the 1973 Major League Baseball season, in 2008; and The Fight of Their Lives, an account of the infamous 1965 incident between Juan Marichal and John Roseboro and its aftermath, in ...
Mark Harris (November 19, 1922 – May 30, 2007) was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator, remembered for his baseball novels featuring Henry Wiggen, particularly Bang the Drum Slowly.
'A Little Slugger’s Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life' hits shelves on Feb. 25 ... with his wife Jasmin. But as for the book’s topic, Renna says he was pulling from his own ...
Prosenotes gave it a "B+" (85%) from critic reviews. The consensus says: "A baseball book that isn’t really about baseball, ‘The Art of Fielding’ almost staggers under its literary references, but it is an excellent debut novel for Harbach full of intricate characters and an interesting plot". [5]
Coveleski, Goslin, Hooper and Marquard were elected after the book was published; Goslin and Marquard directly credited Ritter's book. Toporcer, who died in 1989, was the last survivor among the interviewees. As part of Ritter's research, he interviewed many ballplayers, baseball executives, and writers besides those who have chapters in his book.
Kepner published his second book, The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series, in 2022. [9] The book chronicles the history of the World Series and received critical praise. [10] [11] Olive Fellows, writing for Christian Science Monitor, called it "quirky and engrossing." [12] Richard Crepeau, in a review for the New York Journal of Books ...
The novel is the second in a series of four novels written by Harris that chronicles the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen. Bang the Drum Slowly was a sequel to The Southpaw (1953), with A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957) and It Looked Like For Ever (1979), completing the tetralogy of baseball novels by Harris. [1]
In 1979, he joined his hometown Philadelphia Inquirer as a beat writer for the Philadelphia Phillies, and eventually became a national baseball writer and columnist for that paper. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] From 1983 to 1999 he produced a nationally syndicated Baseball Week in Review column "known for unearthing obscure, historic and humorous aspects of ...