Take Me Out to the Ballgame

It's almost baseball playoffs, and our book group hit a home run with our most recent read -- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. The group came dressed and accessorized for a baseball game, and enjoyed the traditional peanuts and cracker jack of a game as well as some cupcakes decorated with baseball gloves in honor of the main character Henry's well-used glove "Zero."

Reviews

• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/a-swing-and-a-miss/308943/
• https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/the_art_of_fielding_and_our_other_favorite_campus_novels
• https://biblioklept.org/2011/10/17/why-i-abandoned-chad-harbachs-over-hyped-novel-the-art-of-fielding-after-only-100-pages/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books/review/the-art-of-fielding-by-chad-harbach-book-review.html?_r=0
• http://www.newyorker.com/books/book-club/the-admirable-lightness-of-the-art-of-fielding
• http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/09/the_perfect_game.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/29/art-fielding-chad-harbach-review
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/12/art-fielding-chad-harbach-review
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/07/art-of-fielding-baseball-novel
• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/12/first-inning
• http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-review-art-of-fielding-harbach-story.html
• http://www.ew.com/article/2011/08/31/art-fielding-review-chad-harbach

"By his junior year he was the starting varsity shortstop. After every game his mom would ask how many errors he’d made, and the answer was always Zero." - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Author Interviews

• http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/21/entertainment/la-et-chad-harbach-20120421
• http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/09/20/chad-harbach-on-the-art-of-fielding/
• http://www.gq.com/story/art-fielding-chad-harbach-interview
• http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/10/how-to-publish-fielding-keith-gessen

Film Tie-in

• http://variety.com/2011/tv/news/hbo-fielding-new-drama-project-1118041228/
• http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/news/a334807/hbo-developing-new-drama-the-art-of-fielding/
• http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/sundancetv-revs-development-with-projects-from-alan-cumming-todd-field-patrick-dempsey-1201246488/
• http://www.signature-reads.com/2013/04/casting-call-chad-harbachs-the-art-of-fielding/
• http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/22373/where-is-the-art-of-fielding-movie/

"Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd; Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back." - "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Jack Norwoth and Albert Von Tilzer 

Miscellany

• Fictional colleges - http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/guide-to-fantastic-colleges/?_r=0
• Show your Westish College school pride :) with this t-shirt for the fictional place - http://idiotgenius.com/products/westish-college
• Timeline of the book's events - http://affenlight.tumblr.com/post/71424530912/the-art-of-fielding-timeline