The Natural 
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition
Introduction by Kevin Baker
The Natural, Bernard Malamud’s first novel, published in 1952, is also the firstâ€"and some would say still the bestâ€"novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different materialâ€"the story of a superbly gifted “natural†at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball eraâ€"and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin’s comment still holds true: “Malamud has done something whichâ€"now that he has done it!â€"looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology.â€
Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural,
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