Monthly Archives: September 2011

After Something Real: Chris Farley and Batting Stances by Tom Ley

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Ted

Tom Ley writes for The Good Men Project, and he contributed to 1990s First Basemen Week with The Big Cat and the Water. You can email him at leyt345(at)gmail(dot)com. When I was a kid I had two discernible skills. The first was … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Dayn Perry on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Eric

Dayn Perry is a senior writer at NotGraphs and skilled Reggie Jackson biographer. This runs long, but I’ll do better at reining it in going forward … “The last time I forced myself to slog through a work of fiction … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Navin Vaswani on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Eric

Navin Vaswani is a writer extroardinaire at NotGraphs and the lone Canadian participating in Reading Club. I’ve got a couple of confessions: One: I don’t recall having read any baseball fiction; if I have, I don’t remember the book(s). And, … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Pete Beatty on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Eric

Pete Beatty is a future boss at The Classical and P&P’s resident Jim Thome scholar. Some people will demur but “Guert Affenlight” is a truly excellent ridiculous name for a fictional character. “Guert Affenlight” is exactly the kind of name … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Megan Wells on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted

Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. Despite finding the initial pacing a little strange, I’m enjoying The Art of Fielding. My biggest difficulty, though, has been finding a character to identify with. Schwartz, who … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Patrick Dubuque on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted

Find Patrick right here, and at Notgraphs. In my opinion, one of the most interesting aspects of the novel thus far is the excerpt from The Art of Fielding within the actual novel. The rules read as though they pertain … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Carson Cistulli on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted

Find Carson at Fangraphs and Notgraphs. The achievement, for me, of the first 100 pages is two of its characters — both (a) the mythical shortstop (and hero of protagonist Henry Skrimshander) Aparicio Rodriguez, whose (fake) book The Art of … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Adam Webb on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted

Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. Mea culpa guys! I mistakenly purchased The Art of Fiedler, an 81-chapter critical biography of the famed Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler, so if I lapse into commentary about his early training at … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Ted Walker on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted

The characters who trawl the idyllic college campus of The Art of Fielding include a virtuosic young shortstop from the sticks who, though away from his small-time hometown for the first time, eschews romance and booze in favor of stadium … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Great Expectations?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Eric

Away we go with preliminary expectations from some of our contributors before hitting the pages. Please feel free to share your own hopes, dreams, fears about the Art of Fielding in the comment section below. Also: this goes without saying, … Continue reading →

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