The Bookshelf Conversation: Jeff Polman

June 6, 2016

Many of us play Strat-o-matic or some other fantasy version of the game. Robert Coover wrote the classic baseball fiction, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

https://i2.wp.com/ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IQLEE8AtL.jpg?resize=128%2C192https://i2.wp.com/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Dq5VQphmL._UX250_.jpg?resize=189%2C189&ssl=1Well, Coover has company in Jeff Polman, who recently released Twinbill: Further Immersions in Historical Baseball Fiction — his fourth book — which includes a speculative piece about Hank Greenberg, the Hall of Famer first-baseman/outfielder in the years leading up to World War II.

I had somewhat of an ulterior motive for speaking with Polman since I’m working on my own book about Hammerin’ Hank. Here’s our conversation.

 

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