The Art of Fielding
Encyclopedia
The Art of Fielding is a 2011 novel by former n+1
editor Chad Harbach
. It centers around the fortunes of shortstop
Henry Skrimshander, and his career playing college baseball
with the Westish College Harpooners, a Division III (NCAA) team.
N+1
n+1 is a New York–based American literary magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, essays, art, poetry, book reviews, and short fiction. It is published three times each year, and content is published on several times each week...
editor Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach is an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is best known as author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding.-Background and education:...
. It centers around the fortunes of shortstop
Shortstop
Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...
Henry Skrimshander, and his career playing college baseball
College baseball
College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. Compared to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a less significant contribution to cultivating professional players, as the minor leagues primarily...
with the Westish College Harpooners, a Division III (NCAA) team.
Reviews
- "The Art of Fielding -- A Review" at The Fiction CircusThe Fiction CircusThe Fiction Circus is a Brooklyn-based online literary magazine that currently publishes short fiction and essays on the arts. The group also holds staged multimedia fiction readings accompanied by electronic music and incorporating visual art and theater as a frame narrative...
- "Big League Anxiety on the Baseball Diamond" at The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
- "Debut Baseball Novel is a Solid Hit" at USA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
- "The Art of Fielding" at A.V. Club
- "Call Me Safe, Ishmael" at The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....