A review by abroadwell
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

5.0

Beautifully engaging. I was hesitant about this, since I don't follow baseball, and don't care much about it. But it is really primarily a 'campus novel', and some of the main characters are baseball players. We have some descriptions of key games, but really the focus is on the psychology of trying to decide who you are and what you want to be. (The essence of what being at a college is about, I guess.)

And even the college president is engaged in the task of trying to figure out who he wants to be. I was particularly impressed that the description of his affair with a student isn't about an old man "letching" on a sweet young thing, but about a real romance between adults.

Lots of nice Melville references, too, for fans of Moby Dick...