The Southpaw

Name: The Southpaw
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Harris
ISBN: 9781580815161

Author: Mark Harris, Eric Simonson

Narrator: Ed Asner, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Published: 01/01/2000

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Theater

Synopsis

Coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond, left-hander Henry Wiggen grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings, to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, the sports page and himself-all at once. The first installation of a series that includes Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw is a comic and poignant look at Henry Wiggen’s first season in the majors. Based on the novel by Mark Harris.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Earl Brown, Evan Gore, Henry Harris, Armando Ortega, Amy Pietz, Tom Virtue, Ron West, Rugg Williams and Eric Winzenried.

About Mark Harris

From 1990 to 2006, Mark Harris worked as a writer and editor covering movies, television, and books for Entertainment Weekly, where he now writes the Final Cut back-page column. He has written about pop culture for several other magazines as well. He lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on October 12, 2019

Glad I finally got around to reading this ... and I expect I'll continue with the series. As historical (baseball) fiction goes, I found it more-than-sufficiently entertaining. (I'm not ready to put it on the same shelf as, say, The Celebrant, but that's high bar for historical baseball fiction, but......more

Goodreads review by Matt on January 15, 2008

being a big baseball fan, i'm always on the lookout for baseball literature. it wasn't until recently that i came across 'the southpaw,' but i'm sure glad i did. in an era where so many authors feel duty-bound to dazzle their readers with their million-dollar vocabularies, clever turns-of-phrase, an......more

Goodreads review by Dave on April 21, 2017

I knew of Mark Harris, through the 70's movie Bang the Drum Slowly. The movie is based on the second book this series. The Southpaw the first of 4, is written as a memoir of a rookie phenom pitcher named Henry Wiggen and his first season as a pitcher, following his life from the bush leagues to the......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on April 22, 2020

This is the first of four books about Henry Wiggen. It is Wiggins journal of his journey from high school pitcher to a star major league pitcher in his rookie season. It is also the a story of which I am familiar: how a left handed adapts to a right handed world. The Wiggins series is a fun look at......more

Goodreads review by Timmy on January 24, 2020

Published in 1953, this is a literary masterpiece. I never thought I'd see the day where "Moneyball" moved off it's perch as my favorite baseball book but the impossible has happened. Told from the first person point of view and written in a style reminiscent of Mark Twain (indeed, after I theorize......more