Book World: Chad Harbach’s “The Art of Fielding,” reviewed by Dennis Drabelle
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/09/book-world-chad-harbachs-art-of.html
As a title, "The Art of Fielding" does double service: for this engaging first novel by Chad Harbach and for a baseball manual cherished by its protagonist, Henry Skrimshander. The book within the book was written by the fictitious Aparicio Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame shortstop for Henry's beloved St. Louis Cardinals. So closely does Henry emulate Rodriguez that at Westish College in rural Wisconsin, where Henry plays ball, he is closing in on his mentor's NCAA record of 51 consecutive games without an error, and the Cardinals themselves are scouting him.
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