Baseball Fiction: S/D

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Baseball is just around the corner, and I continue to hate the modern major league game. So I'm getting my fix with words (and the DVD set of When It Was A Game).

I've read Ball Four (better than fiction - the concept of 'beaver-shooting' was fascinating when I was 11), and I tried reading Shoeless Joe and the Iowa Baseball Confederacy book, but that guy just bores me to death. What else is there?

Is Philip Roth's baseball novel decent?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It's excellent - one of my favourites of his, and he's a terrific writer. The Natural by Bernard Malamud is really good too. My favourite sort-of baseball novel is Robert Coover's dazzling The Universal Baseball Association, Proprietor J. Henry Waugh - but it's about a dice game version of baseball, and a guy who plays it obsessively. Read it anyway!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 February 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(Dont Look Back) by Satchel Paige is hilarious and uplifting.

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 21 February 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

search: The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings by William Brashler
Pride Of The Bimbos by John Sayles

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 21 February 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

here are some best-of lists of baseball fiction too:

http://www.kypris.com/Baseball/bb-fiction.html#Dozen

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 21 February 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555835333.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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