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Originally Posted by Cod
Anyone read The Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover? It's a fictional novel about an accountant who dreams about his fantasy league throughout the day. The story of a man who gets more and more into his simulated baseball game.
I've been told its a very underrated book that any baseball fan should read. Hoping someone here has read it and can elaborate on the book a little bit before I try to find a copy as it doesn't look to be in print any longer.
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I read it when it first came out, and it is far from 'underrated'. It is not so much a baseball book, as it is about a dice-and-paper game of fictional players that J. Henry Waugh ("Yaweh" get it?) plays in his dull life.
While there is lots to recommend, I should note Coover is a life-long leftist and wrote a fictional account of the Rosenbergs that 'acquits' them of being traitors--long since disproved by the Rosenbergs own admissions of guilt. So there's that.
Worth your time, I expect it is in most libraries, so buying seems expensive to me.