The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Coover
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Psychological study
- Time of Work: The present and the UBA years LVI and CLVII
- Setting: A “major-league” American city, never specified
- Principal Characters: J. Henry Waugh, Horace Zifferblatt, Lou Engel, Damon Rutherford, Jock Casey, Sycamore Flynn
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Sports fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Mental illness, Imagination, Loneliness, Baseball, Accountants or accounting, Games
- Locales: United States
The Novel
The unsuspecting first-time reader of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. will find its first few pages confusing: A character named J. Henry Waugh, greatly excited, seems to be watching not simply an ordinary baseball game but a no-hit game in progress. Henry looks first at the sun, high over the ballpark, then at his watch, but the watch reads almost eleven o’clock, and any American reader knows that major-league baseball is not played in the morning. The confusion intensifies when Henry thinks that it may be a long...
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