Malamuds first novel published in 1952 is also the firstand some would saystill the bestnovel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud takes on thestory of a ... » 

Malamuds first novel published in 1952 is also the firstand some would saystill the bestnovel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud takes on thestory of a superbly gifted natural at play in the fields of the old daylightbaseball eraand invests it with the hardscrabble poetry grand andbelievable that runs through all his best work. «