’TIS THE SEASON. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE NOVEL OR MOVIE ABOUT BASEBALL? By A. Doubleplay, Guest Blogger

 

"If you build it, he will come."

Wow! It’s that time of year. Crisp fall breezes. A hint of buttered popcorn and roasted hot dogs wafting across the infield. The crack of a wooden bat sending a screaming line-drive toward the shortstop. Yes, that’s right, it’s baseball playoff time. The World Series is just around the corner.

What a game! It’s only been around in its current form for about 150 years. And baseball has been the subject of scores of novels and movies. Two come to mind: Shoeless Joe a 1980 novel by W. P. Kinsella, adapted to the big screen as Field of Dreams in 1989; and The Natural, a 1952 novel by Bernard Malamud, the basis for a movie of the same name in 1984. There are probably other baseball novels that were made into movies.