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Henry Wiggen, Mark Harris' beloved and bedraggled Southpaw, has returned and this is one comeback that will be welcomed---and not by baseball fans alone. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality.
Released from the New York Mammoths after nineteen years, twenty-seventh winningest pitcher in baseball history (tied at 247 victories with Joseph J. "Iron Man" McGinnity and John Powell), Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove.
What impels Henry to pitch against Fate, to trek to California and as far as Japan? He still has a few seasons, a few innings left anyway. Princiled or possessed? You'll have to decide for yourself as author Mark Harris plays out male menopause on familiar American turf: the baseball diamond.
Released from the New York Mammoths after nineteen years, twenty-seventh winningest pitcher in baseball history (tied at 247 victories with Joseph J. "Iron Man" McGinnity and John Powell), Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove.
What impels Henry to pitch against Fate, to trek to California and as far as Japan? He still has a few seasons, a few innings left anyway. Princiled or possessed? You'll have to decide for yourself as author Mark Harris plays out male menopause on familiar American turf: the baseball diamond.
