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Originally Posted by issybird
Why not? Not all stories can or should have happy endings, although I agree that this particular one was unreservedly bleak. And there's the flip side of baseball, too; the side that breaks your heart, that chews up players who never get to the big show or just barely edge into it to disappear without a memory.
I read a book about the minors a few years ago, by John Feinstein. Optimism, yes, but it frequently doesn't pay off.
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Yeah, but Malamud blows up Roy's life completely. Ker-boom!
Baseball's full of regret, but it's also full of hope. Down five runs in the bottom of the ninth with two out, the game's still not completely out of reach. Redemption and victory are always possible. Except for poor Roy.
I did enjoy the game descriptions; the jargon reminded of John R. Tunis's series of novels about the Brooklyn Dodgers, from the 1940s.