Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of
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
