[Stymie]

The opening chapter of Don Dellio's "Underworld" deals with the fate of the Bobby Thompson baseball after it cleared the Polo Grounds wall in 1951. Priceless fiction relating a story about the ball which in reality has never been brought forward.

OT, but I still think that Dellilo's "Falling Man" is the best GAN of this millennium.  I'll check out "Underworld" to compare and contrast.  I used to think that Roth's "Great American Novel" was in fact "itself" (as the Irish say...), but I re-read it recently, and it is not, alas....

Still worth reading, nevertheless, for BB aficionados.

[Stymie]

The opening chapter of Don Dellio's "Underworld" deals with the fate of the Bobby Thompson baseball after it cleared the Polo Grounds wall in 1951. Priceless fiction relating a story about the ball which in reality has never been brought forward.

OT, but I still think that Dellilo's "Falling Man" is the best GAN of this millennium.  I'll check out "Underworld" to compare and contrast.  I used to think that Roth's "Great American Novel" was in fact "itself" (as the Irish say...), but I re-read it recently, and it is not, alas....

Still worth reading, nevertheless, for BB aficionados.