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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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Considered One Of The Best Baseball Novels Of All Time, This Black Comedy About A Discontented BusinessmanS Obsession With A Fantasy Baseball League Of His Own Creation Is The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Meets William Gaddis Meets John UpdikeS Rabbit, Run.Somewhere In A MajorLeague American City, There Lives A Man Named J. Henry WaughNoAccount Accountant, Barfly, And Country Music Fan. The Most Important Part Of WaughS Life, As Far As He Is Concerned, Is Lived In His Head, Where He Is Sole Proprietor Of The Universal Baseball Association, Which Is Now Entering Its FiftySixth Season. The Games Are Played With Dice And Scorecards, And The Players Are Just Numbers And Names, But For Waugh TheyRe More Real Than The Dreary Office, The Dive Bar, And The Dingy Apartment In Which He Spends His Days. Still, Being Sole Proprietor Is A Lonely Business, And When A Few Rolls Of The Dice Spell Tragedy For The Rookie Pitcher Damon RutherfordA Player Waugh Believes Will Reinvigorate The GameThe Whole Association Is Imperiled, Along With The Sanity Of Its Isolated Creator.Robert CooverS Fiction Was A Map Of America, And The Universal Baseball Association Is SmackDab In The Center Of It. Baseball, In WaughS World, Is An Escape, And Waugh Is Nothing If Not An AllAmerican Escapist With A Capacity For Denial So Profound That It Can Only Be Called Optimism.
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