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Gashouse6
02-12-2006, 04:35 PM
What is your favorite FICTION baseball book?
Mine is High Heat.
Yankee Legend
02-12-2006, 05:15 PM
I remember growing up I read this:
wamby
02-12-2006, 08:06 PM
The Celebrant.
Sultan_1895-1948
02-15-2006, 02:33 AM
Other than "Where the Red Fern Grows"
Kroxquo
02-16-2006, 08:39 PM
There are two great baseball novels that have gone unmentioned:
"The Natural" by Bernard Malmud. Much, much darker than the movie. Great novel by any standard
"The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh Proprietor" - author's name escapes me at the moment. Guy gets obsessed with his self-invented table-top baseball game.
Tigerfan1974
02-17-2006, 06:26 AM
Other than "Where the Red Fern Grows"
I agree w/ "Shoeless Joe."
stan opdyke
02-17-2006, 09:27 AM
There are two great baseball novels that have gone unmentioned:
"The Natural" by Bernard Malmud. Much, much darker than the movie. Great novel by any standard
"The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh Proprietor" - author's name escapes me at the moment. Guy gets obsessed with his self-invented table-top baseball game.
Robert Coover is the author. I think the Universal Baseball Association is the best novel, though Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris is a very close second and it has more memorable moments than the Coover book. Another very good baseball novel is Prospect by Bill Littlefield. A more recent baseball novel, Double Play by Robert Parker, is excellent.
VIBaseball
02-17-2006, 07:15 PM
I'm a fan of the Universal Baseball Association one too -- like The Natural, it's baseball literature, but funny and easy to read too.
One thing that struck me a while after finishing it was that the proprietor's name is JHWH -- he is God of his own little universe.
christian gentleman
02-18-2006, 09:18 AM
The Natural is great. Completely different than the movie. No sugar-coating.
Kinsella's book Shoeless Joe comes to Iowa is wonderful.
CoachDan
02-24-2006, 02:47 PM
Anyone who isn't familiar with it, should find a copy of "The Great American Novel" by Philip Roth.
It is a HILARIOUS novel about a fictional team, The Rupert Mundys.
Dan
bhss89
02-24-2006, 03:15 PM
For me: The Natural
For my 4th grade class: Finding Buck McHenry; a great story about a young boy who befriend an aging Negro League star (or is he?)
Syd Finch is also a good read.
Brian McKenna
02-24-2006, 05:19 PM
i read a book many years ago about a guy who gets transported back to the 1869 cincinnati reds - not saying it was great - but does anyone know the name or author?
stan opdyke
02-24-2006, 06:54 PM
i read a book many years ago about a guy who gets transported back to the 1869 cincinnati reds - not saying it was great - but does anyone know the name or author?
If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock.