When will the national pastime find its bard? Someone who can write about it with the same attention to detail, aesthetic eye, and ardor as Ernest Hemingway wrote about bull fighting?
Don't get me wrong, there has been some fine American writing about sports in general and baseball in particular--the musings of Hemingway's Santiago about Joe DiMaggio surely belongs to the genre. The Library of America's Baseball: A Literary Anthology contains a wide and generous selection and George Will's Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball deserves mention. In the spring of 2012, The Daily Beast published a list of 13 notable reads. But where, oh where, is baseball's Balzac?
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