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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 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 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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P&P Reading Club: Pete Beatty on The Art of Fielding Chapters 53-72

Pete Beatty is a future boss at The Classical and P&P’s resident Jim Thome scholar. “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”–Poetics “Is Ahab, Ahab?”–Moby-Dick, Ch 132 As Henry and Schwartz and the fifth business folks eddy … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Compassion, the Yips, & Chapter 50 of The Art of Fielding

If I was going to pick one chapter of The Art of Fielding to excerpt on Pitchers & Poets it would be Chapter 50. Chapter 50 deals explicitly with none of the story’s main characters – Guert Affenlight is there, … Continue reading

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P&P Reading Club: Adam Webb on The Art of Fielding Chapters 34- 52

Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. I have made a point of avoiding anything that might spoil any part of TAF for me. I *did* buy last month’s Vanity Fair so I could read Keith Gessen’s article on TAF … Continue reading

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