This was Bernard Malamud's first novel, and it is also the first--and some would say still the best--literary novel written about baseball. It is the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era, whose ambitions and desires are constantly thwarted.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, c1952.
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