It Looked Like for Ever
Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Fans who loved him in Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch (all Bison Books) will cheer his comeback. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, the twenty-seventh winningest pitcher in baseball history (tied at 247 victories with Joseph J. Iron Man McGinnity and John Powell), Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove. What im…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-7244-6
- EAN: 9780803272446
- Produktnummer: 9271833
- Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.3 cm x D1.6 cm 348 g
- Gewicht: 348
Über den Autor
Mark Harris (1922-2007) is the author of a famous quartet of baseball novels--including Bang the Drum Slowly--as well as Something about a Soldier, Speed, and The Talemaker. All are available as Bison Books.
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