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Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel by Mark Harris, first published in 1956 by Knopf. The novel is the second in a series of four novels written by Harris that chronicles the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen.
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Dec 1, 2003 · More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer.
Bang the Drum Slowly is a satisfying novel about friendship, written in the first person voice of Henry Wiggin, ace pitcher of the New York Mammoths. Wiggin is a smart baseball player and sharp-eyed observer of human nature.
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Jan 1, 1984 · Bang the Drum Slowly Paperback – January 1, 1984. by Mark Harris (Author) 4.2 158 ratings. See all formats and editions. Audiobook. $0.00 Free with your Audible trial. Paperback. $8.95 35 Used from $1.99 4 New from $55.93. Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw, became the best-known fictional baseball player in America.
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On the surface the book tells the story of pitcher Henry Wiggin of the New York Mammoths baseball team and a single season in the mid-1950s. But below the surface its the story of Wiggins' friendship with a third string catcher named Bruce Pearson, who is dying of Hodgkin's disease.
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Jan 1, 2003 · Bang the Drum Slowly. Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball ?with his arm and his...
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Bang the Drum Slowly is the second in a series of four novels written by Mark Harris that chronicles the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen. This series is among the finest novels ever written to use baseball as a theme. Published in 1956, the book is a simple, moving testament to the immutable power of friendship.
Apr 1, 1995 · 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."
Nov 11, 2022 · The second of four novels that chronicle the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen -- a set of books many consider the finest novels ever written about baseball -- Mark Harris' Bang the Drum Slowly, published in 1956, is a simple and moving testament to the immutable power of friendship.
