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The Great American Novel
Phiillip Roth's bawdy, raucous love story about the Patriot League's Port Ruppert Mundys, forced to play all their games on the road because their owners rented out the ballpark to the War Department. Roth weaves in many actual baseball stories in fictionalized form. A bit raw, but a delight.
Also the "Kid from Thompkinsville," series, by John R. Tunis. Wonderful prose to help younger readers captured by terrific plots to improve their vocabulary without even knowing it. Roy Tucker, "the Kid," was used by Roth in "American Pastoral," and is thought to be a major influence on Bernard Malamud's Roy Hobbs in "The Natural," also a great read.
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