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Baseball Novels (Study Guide): The Natural, Summerland, Last Days of Summer, Hanging Curve, Shoeless Joe, for Love of the Game

Baseball Novels (Study Guide): The Natural, Summerland, Last Days of Summer, Hanging Curve, Shoeless Joe, for Love of the Game


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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Natural, Summerland, Last Days of Summer, Hanging Curve, Shoeless Joe, for Love of the Game, the Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, Bang the Drum Slowly, if I Never Get Back, the Southpaw. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball written by Bernard Malamud. The book follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a sociopathic serial killer. Most of the story concerns itself with his attempts to return to baseball later in life, when he plays for the fictional New York Knights with his legendary bat 'Wonderboy'. Based upon the bizarre shooting incident and subsequent comeback of Philadelphia Phillies player Eddie Waitkus, the story of Roy Hobbs takes some poetic license and embellishes what was truly a strange, but memorable, account of a career lost too soon. It has been alternately suggested that the shooting incident might have been inspired by Chicago Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges, who was shot by a showgirl with whom he was romantically linked. A film adaptation of The Natural starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs was released in 1984. The novel opens with 19-year old Roy Hobbs on a train to Chicago with his manager Sam. He is traveling to Chicago for a tryout for the Chicago Cubs. Other passengers on the train include sportswriter Max Mercy, Walter 'The Whammer' Whambold (the leading hitter in the American League and 3 time American League Most Valuable Player at the time in the novel/ clearly based on Babe Ruth) and Harriet Bird, a beautiful but mysterious woman. The train makes a quick stop at a carnival along the rail where The Whammer challenges Hobbs to strike him out. Hobbs do...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=118712


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157059608
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 73 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157059600
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Natural, Summerland, Last Days of Summer, Hanging Curve, Shoeless Joe, for Love of the Game
  • Width: 229 mm


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