Favorite Fiction Book

[Gashouse6]

What is your favorite FICTION baseball book?

Mine is High Heat.

[Yankee Legend]

I remember growing up I read this:

[wamby]

The Celebrant.

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Other than "Where the Red Fern Grows"

[Kroxquo]

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]

Other than "Where the Red Fern Grows"

I agree w/ "Shoeless Joe."

[stan opdyke]

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]

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]

The Natural is great. Completely different than the movie. No sugar-coating.

Kinsella's book Shoeless Joe comes to Iowa is wonderful.

[CoachDan]

The Great American Novel

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]

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]

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]

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.