
A richly imagined novel centered on the only homeless major league baseball team in American history, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. "Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick.... An awesome performance." --The New...


Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American...



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In this imaginative novel, Philip Roth converts the status of baseball from a national myth and pastime into the basis for biting satire, replete with heroism and treachery, wordplay, and an unforgettable cast of characters. Locked away in an asylum, once-famous sports journalist...

Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them-or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American...



From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral --a richly imagined novel featuring America's only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers "shameless comic extravagance.... Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself"...

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a richly imagined novel featuring America's only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers "shameless comic extravagance...Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a richly imagined novel featuring America's only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers "shameless comic extravagance...Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a richly imagined novel featuring America's only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers "shameless comic extravagance...Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself"--The...



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