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Originally Posted by frankbmd
Butch, that may be a stretch. It is worth rereading though. It touches so many levels other than baseball,
you are bound to get more out of it the second time around. As a life long sim table gamer though, I do understand your bias.
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Dr Frank, our edition (trade paper) looks different, too, and we had it auto'd in person by Prof Coover.
Heckuva nice guy, as friendly and humble in our brief interaction with him as he is insightful and erudite.
We wish we'd been able to take some of his classes.
"YMMV," but we don't think our regard for it is much of a stretch. Yeah, tabletop baseball is the launching pad
for the plot, but as you suggest, what it's "about" is so, so much more than that -- baseball itself and baseball
history, but far beyond that, isolation versus connection, fantasy versus reality, obedience versus free will,
labour versus management, order versus chaos, creator versus creation, life versus afterlife, man versus god,
sanity versus insanity... and more... all delivered in such clean, concise, yet beautiful, perfectly paced prose.