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Originally Posted by Amazin69
No love at all for Bang the Drum Slowly? That's probably my number one. And not only because Michael Moriarty (grandson of George) based his characterization of Henry Wiggen on Tom Seaver, which is a bit different from Paul Newman's take in the original TV version.
(Of course, both baseball and the world were rather different by 1973 than they had been in 1956.)
"From here on in, I rag nobody." Aww.
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tbh, I've never seen the movie, but have read the book. I enjoyed the first book in the series,
The Southpaw, a little more. I haven't read the third and fourth books from the series yet.