Bang The Drum Slowly
Bang The Drum Slowly was written in 1956 and is the second in a series of 4 works by Mark Harris which feature Henry Wiggen, a star left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths baseball team. I first read it in 1959 when I was 13 years old and I’ve read it again several times since.
It may not really be \"a baseball book\". The foreword
is a quote from \"The Huge Season\" by Wright Morris:
\"….. \'a book can have Chicago in it and not be about Chicago,\'….[He held up another book with Hemmingway’s name on the spine], \'There’s a prizefighter in it but it’s not about a prizefighter\';
\'Is it about the sun rising?\' I asked,
\'Goddam if I know what it’s about,\' he said.\"
But it’s a book about people who are baseball players. The story evolves through their lives and the events of a baseball season. So it’s an atmosphere that baseball lovers can relate to.
Bruce Pearson is a young third string catcher with the Mammoths. He’s an unsophisticated country boy......
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