Indeed, Frank, we too can't recommend it strongly enough. "UBA" is a brilliant thing, although we'd caution anyone who expects
a book "about" a tabletop baseball game to be trivial and boring that it's only "about" a tabletop baseball game as much as, say,
the movie Diner is only about a diner. It's a metaphorical, sometimes almost phantasmagorical, look into almost everything,
an amazingly brisk read in paradoxically concise yet beautiful prose.
We'll add that Coover is a wonderfully cool fellow in person and his many other books are great reads as well.
In a shameful bit of self-promotion while we're here, we'll also invite anyone on board who's into tabletop baseball games,
current, recent, or antique, to visit our website and forum, linked in our sig below...
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