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...really a frustrating game-our backs were faster and our forwards were stronger, but we lost the ball an uncountable number of times and just could never come up with the smooth, coordinated play to get the points on the board," team captain Alex Wiggen explained...
Bruce is more victim than hero, the means whereby Pitcher Henry Wiggen, the narrator of Bang, can make his point that ballplayers belong to the fraternity of men. Bruce has Hodgkin's disease, and any moment may be his last. That is why Ace Pitcher Wiggen makes it part of his contract that Bruce must be kept on with the Mammoths as long as he is. That is why the players who had got their kicks out of riding the dumb catcher suddenly expose hidden reserves of tenderness and simple decency. There is one bad apple, and that...
Catcher Pearson dies, but by that time Narrator Wiggen and Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction...
Marshals: John Merryman Franklin, of New York, N. Y.; William James Murray, of Natick; George Almy Percy, of Arlington; Thomas Chandler Thacher, of Yarmouthport; Walter Heber Wheeler, Jr., of Yonkers, N. Y.; Morrill Wiggen, of Brookline...
Earned runs, Harvard. Three base hit, Hovey. Home run, Upton. Sacrifice hits, Hovey Trafford. Stolen bases, Hallowell 2, Abbott, Sexton. First base on balls, Cook, Tenney Magill. First base on errors, Abbott 2, Hovey, Upton. Struck, out, Trafford 2. Sullivan 3, Wiggen 2, Upton George 2, Cook 2, McLane Double plays, Upton-Sullivan. Passed balls, Upton. Time, 2 hours 45 min. Burns and Muray...