Monthly Archives: October 2011

P&P Reading Club: Bryan Harvey on The Art of Fielding Finale

Bryan Harvey, who has previously written here about Brian McCann and Jason Heyward and John Henry, is a high school teacher and poet, who writes for The Faster Times and The Lawn Chair Boys. His poetry has appeared in the … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Megan Wells on The Art of Fielding Finale

Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. The end of this book affected me in ways I really didn’t expect. I read it in a marathon binge session, guiltily hoping for Henry’s glorious Hollywood return … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Patrick Dubuque on The Art of Fielding Finale

(Author’s Note: this article has nothing to do with Game 6 of the World Series.  For that, I apologize.) Right around the time our reading club got underway, I began my tenure at a local high school as a student … Continue reading

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P&P Conversations: In a World With no World Series

Ted: Eric, you recently wrote a piece about Adrian Beltre calling for more appreciation for the third baseman. Has Beltre entered the general baseball zeitgeist, or is he still on the oustkirts? Are all of the Rangers on the outskirts … Continue reading

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Adrian Beltre

I wrote a thing about Adrian Beltre for The Classical’s Deadspin Journal. Check it out. -Eric

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P&P Conversations: Worried Series

Eric: I feel like I need to do some sort of literary knuckle-cracking. How long has it been since we’ve done this? Don’t answer that. I watched Game 2 at a quiet neighborhood bar last night with music piping through the … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Ted Walker on The Art of Fielding Chapters 53-72

For most of this book, Henry Skrimshander was the quiet fulcrum around which a group of vibrant characters wheeled, projecting onto his country frame their anxieties and insecurities. Henry, for his part, played the wall. Speaking little, affecting nothing, his … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Bryan Harvey on The Art of Fielding Chapters 53– 72

Bryan Harvey, who has previously written here about Brian McCann and Jason Heyward and John Henry, is a high school teacher and poet, who writes for The Faster Times and The Lawn Chair Boys. His poetry has appeared in the … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Adam Webb on The Art of Fielding Chapters 53- 72

Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. Well, that certainly got plotty, didn’t it? Maybe I skipped over the warnings but I hadn’t been concerned that Guert was putting his job on the line with his affair. The book successfully … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Megan Wells on The Art of Fielding Chapters 53-72

Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. Everything seems finally to be coming to a head in the novel. Relationships are breaking down and forcing the characters to figure out their own lives, instead of … Continue reading

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