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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040407
Author:JONATHAN YARDLEY

An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.

At the dawn of the 1960s the literature of baseball was paltry. Some good fiction had been inspired by the game, notably Ring Lardner's "You Know Me Al" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural," but nonfiction was little more than breathless sports-page reportage: hagiographic biographies of stars written for adolescents ("Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sandlots"), as-told-to quickies ("Player- Manager," "by" Lou Boudreau) and once-over-lightly histories of the game ("The Baseball Story," by Fred ...

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