| 0 |
Subject: The Kid from Tomkinsville
Posted by: loki
- SuperDude [4211201420] Tue, Aug 14, 2007, 19:30
Rick Ankiel has been compared to Roy Hobbs from The Natural, but he is more reminiscent of the protagonist in John R. Tunis' children's baseball books The Kid from Tomkinsville and The Kid Comes Back. Gurupies over 50 probably read these between ages 11-13. No happy ending in either of these novels differentiated them from most children's books. As an aside these books had a prominent place in Phillip Roth's classic, American Pastoral. |
| 1 | blue hen
ID: 16322314
Wed, Aug 15, 2007, 09:28
|
How about Matt Christopher's The Kid Who Only Hit Homers?
And let's not kid ourselves - this is almost exactly what happens in The Natural.
|
| 2 | Boxman
ID: 571114225
Sun, Sep 02, 2007, 17:33
|
Rick Ankiel has been compared to Roy Hobbs from The Natural
Of all the sensationistic bullcrap I've ever read in my life. The movie is on AMC right now to boot.
|
| Rate this thread: | If you wish, you may rate this thread on scale of 1-5. Ratings should indicate how valuable or interesting you believe this thread would be to other users of this forum. A '5' means that this thread is a 'must read'. A '1' means that this is a complete waste of time. If you have previously rated this thread, rating it again will delete your previous rating. If you do not want to rate this thread, but want to see how others have rated it, then click the button without entering a rating, or else click here. |
|
|
|
Post a reply to this message: (But first, how about checking out this sponsor?)
|