Baseball GB (“British perspectives on baseball”) published this review of the classic by Robert Coover.
Upshot:
If you love baseball and novels, a baseball novel should be the perfect way to combine the two passions; however, there’s always a fear with any sport-based work of fiction that the qualities that make up a great read can be lost beneath the desire to fill it with details designed to appeal to sports fans.
Perhaps the best way around this problem is for the sport to be a backdrop to the ‘real’ story, rather than its sole focus? The Universal Baseball Association certainly suggests this is true. It isn’t simply a piece of baseball fiction, but rather a very good novel that happens to refer to the sport…
In a “turnabout is fair play” situation, if anyone knows where I can find a pick-up cricket situation in northern NJ that welcomes beginners, I’d be interested. Moving to NJ from Brooklyn, I was dismayed by the lack of spontaneity in finding pick-up games, especially for guys my age (i.e., adults). Everything has to be so freakin’ organized in the ‘burbs, it’s disgusting.
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