{"product_id":"it-looked-like-for-ever-paperback","title":"It Looked Like For Ever - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Harris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Fans who loved him in Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch (all Bison Books) will cheer his comeback. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, the twenty-seventh winningest pitcher in baseball history (tied at 247 victories with Joseph J. \"Iron Man\" McGinnity and John Powell), Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove. What impels Henry to pitch against Pate, to trek to California and as far as Japan? He still has a few seasons, a few innings left anyway. Is he principled or possessed? You'll have to decide for yourself as author Mark Harris plays out Wiggen's midlife crisis on familiar American turf: the baseball diamond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Harris (1922-2007) is the author of a famous quartet of baseball novels--including \u003ci\u003eBang the Drum Slowly\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as \u003ci\u003eSomething about a Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpeed\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Talemaker\u003c\/i\u003e. All are available as Bison Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.62 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1989\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761354965280,"sku":"9780803272446","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/75499be90b2b778f9b64ef66109687b6.webp?v=1780205359","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/it-looked-like-for-ever-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}