You Can Enjoy Almost Anything if You Give it Enough Time: Chad Harbach’s “The Art of Fielding.”
In Richard Russo’s “Empire Falls,” the local bartender, Bea, has become a fan of baseball despite her best efforts: Having tended bar for forty years, Bea had watched several thousand ball games she had no interest in, only to discover at this late date that she’d picked up so damn much knowledge about baseball that […]