gasarch@umcp-cs.UUCP ( William Gasarch) (12/23/85)
A rather unusual (though good) baseball book that nobody has mentioned is Philip Roths ``The Great American Novel'' which traces the misfortunes of an awful team in a fictious league during WW II. Its essentially satire and well written On the other hand, one problem with fiction about baseball is that the real game is interesting enough, so making things fictional can only detract from the story. For example, before Bill Veck (misspelled I'm sure) sent a midget up to bat no fiction book could have possibly used that gimmick as nobody would hve believed it. But, Roths book is well written, and satirical, and has a point (though I'm not sure what it is), hence I recommend it. gasarch@maryland
kenf@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU (12/26/85)
In a 1942 story "You Could Look It Up" by James Thurber a midget named
Pearl du Monville grounded out to the second baseman on a 3-0 pitch with
two out top of the ninth.
It was some time later ( early 1950's ) that Bill Veeck, then owner of
the St. Louis Browns, sent a midget to bat against Detroit. He walked.
ken fortenberryeagle@ihlpg.UUCP (John Blumenstein) (01/02/86)
> > > > In a 1942 story "You Could Look It Up" by James Thurber a midget named > Pearl du Monville grounded out to the second baseman on a 3-0 pitch with > two out top of the ninth. > It was some time later ( early 1950's ) that Bill Veeck, then owner of > the St. Louis Browns, sent a midget to bat against Detroit. He walked. > > > ken fortenberry *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR FAREWELL *** How ironic, this morning I heard of Bill Veeck's death and when I began to read net this was the first article I read. Bill - Baseball will miss you. Though the things you did sometimes (i.e. the above article) were off the wall (Deep center of course) they were refreshing to hear about. I have heard a number of wild stories of your promos. Farewell, maybe you will spice things up up there - I don't think they will go for fireworks and exploding scoreboards. (It might be, it could be, It is - another soul was saved by Clarence A1 (Angel first class). BANG BOOM BANG BOOM - there goes Bill again.) John T. Blumenstein ihlpg!eagle -- John T. Blumenstein ihlpg!eagle -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sulu: "They say she has transwarp drive." Scotty: "Aye, and if my mother had wheels she would be a wagon."