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Author: Mark Harris Finkelstein
First Published: 1956
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The early 1950’s
Setting: Perkinsville and New York, New York; Rochester, Minnesota; and Bainbridge, Georgia
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Sports fiction
Subjects: 1950’s, Values, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, South or Southerners, New York City, Friendship, Death or dying, Loyalty, Baseball, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Diseases, Hodgkin’s disease
Locales: New York, NY, Georgia, Rochester, MN

Henry “Author” Wiggen, the narrator, the star left-handed pitcher of the New York Mammoths and author of a novel, The Southpaw. He chronicles the final months in the life of his friend, the Mammoths’ third-string catcher, Bruce Pearson. Henry is Bruce’s constant companion; he holds out for a contract that stipulates that Bruce can be traded or released only if Henry receives the same treatment. He protects Bruce from Katie, and he tries to keep their teammates from making Bruce the butt of their jokes and tricks, keeping Bruce’s condition a...

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