The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach – review
2012-01-29
College baseball is the backdrop to an engrossing if sometimes implausible tale of male bonding Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding cross-breeds two genres with limited gene pools, the baseball novel and the campus novel, and comes up with a vigorous hybrid, entertaining and engrossing, though almost absurdly high-minded. There are only a few passages of unrelieved sporting technicality ("Rick O ...
