Bang the drum slowly

Bruce Pearson was not the ideal best friend. He was dim-witted, he drank too much, and he was one of the worst catchers Henry Wiggen had ever pitched to in all his years in the B-leagues. But Pearson had a secret that was going to get the New York Mammoths to the playoffs. A new adaptation for the theatre of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time.

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"Bruce Pearson was not the ideal best friend. He was dim-witted, he drank too much, and he was one of the worst catchers Henry Wiggen had ever pitched to in all his years in the B-leagues. But Pearson had a secret that was going to get the New York Mammoths to the playoffs. A new adaptation for the theatre of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time."@en
"Presents a bittersweet return to an era of baseball before the million dollar contracts, and playing ball had not become an enormous media event."
"Bruce Pearson was not the ideal best friend. He was dim-witted, he drank too much, and he was one of the worst catchers Henry Wiggen had ever pitched to in all his years in the B-leagues. But Pearson had a secret that was going to get the New York Mammoths to the playoffs."@en
"More than a novel about baseball, [this book] is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer. -Back cover."
"Bruce Pearson was not the ideal best friend. He was dim-witted, he drank too much, and he was one of the worst catchers Henry Wiggen had ever pitched to in all his years in the B-leagues. But Pearson had a secret that was going to get the New York Mammoths to the playoffs.--"@en
"A fictional major league baseball team shows its coming together when one player is diagnosis with a fatal disease."
"From the container - Henry Wiggen, hero of THE SOUTHPAW, became the best-known fictional baseball player in America. Now he is back again in BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family." "BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY is more than just another novel about baseball. It is about friendship, about the lives of a group of men as one by one they learn that a teammate is dying. Henry's dead-pan, vernacular account of life in the dugout is refreshing, lively and often uproariously funny. His reactions to his doomed friend are poignant and profoundly touching." (The New York Herald Tribune)."@en
"Presents a play about a terminally-ill baseball player trying to play just one more season, and of his friend on the team who tries to help him."@en
""A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball teams friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Adapted from the novel by Mark Harris."--L.A. Theatre Works, Audio Theatre Collection."@en