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As exemplified by his gargantuan appetite! And his hospitalization for overeating was borrowed from a Babe Ruth incident.
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I had it in my head that Roy was poisoned to keep him out of the game. I don't know where I got that from, but I kept waiting for it to be revealed.
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Malamud obviously borrowed heavily from baseball lore, even down to baseball lingo when describing games. (I admit it; I had to look up "bingle.") But for all that and other influences, I wouldn't describe the book as derivative.
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Eddie Waitkus, Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson ...