Damon Rutherford

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Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Au contraire, mon frere, there was a contest to create the best Damon Rutherford baseball card.

Cliff, i was unaware of the cards or the contest.

Originally Posted by molenick

No cards from me, but here's the book.

That cover is not the same as both of mine which are both different

Originally Posted by commishbob

An unusual and very entertaining novel. One of the few books that I've repurchased. I gave away my original copy and a few years later I had the urge to read it again so I nabbed a copy via Amazon.

Bob, I too have read the book two or three times and have also repurchased it at least once. I also lent my first copy to an acquaintance and it was never returned.

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Best American novel of the 20th Century, alongside Heller's Catch-22.

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.

I'm not sure I have mentioned it in one of our periodic baseball book threads, but I thought it needed a thread of its own.

If you Google Damon Rutherford, a number of real Damon Rutherfords exist, so he is not only fictional. The last chapter, long after Mr. Waugh's passing, is about the fictional characters still playing ball 100 years later.

Thanks for all the comments so far. If you have never heard of it, you should look for it, although not readily available (the only reprint, i believe, was published in 1971).