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Originally Posted by Catlady
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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But the one that's really spooky is that Malamud seems eerily prescient. Given that the book was published in 1952, it must have been essentially written by the playoffs in 1951. But especially given that the Knights must be the New York Giants, Roy is the Bobby Thompson that didn't happen.