Bang the Drum Slowly

Henry Wiggen, hero of THE SOUTHPAW, became the best-known fictional baseball player in America. Now he is back again in BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family."

"BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY is more than just another novel about baseball. It is about friendship, about the lives of a group of men as one by one they learn that a teammate is dying. Henry's dead-pan, vernacular account of life in the dugout is refreshing, lively and often uproariously funny. His reactions to his doomed friend are poignant and profoundly touching." (The New York Herald Tribune)