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Looking for some good beach reading? Try some of these baseball novels with Jewish themes or characters. A word of warning: some of these titles are long out of print, but you can find them on used book sites, such as Amazon.com.
I may be wrong, but I doubt you’ll find too much adult fiction about Jews in other sports.
• Voices of a Summer Day, Irwin Shaw
• The Chosen, Chaim Potok
• Sam’s Legacy, Jay Neugeboren
• The Great American Novel, Philip Roth
• Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife, Syvia Tennenbaum
• The Celebrant, Eric Rolfe Greenberg
• The Grace of Shortstops, Robert Mayer
• Brooklyn Boy, Alan Lelchuk
• This is Next Year, Philip Goldberg
• In Days of Awe, Eric Goodman
• The Spy in a Catcher’s Mask, Kurt Willinger (a work of historical fiction about Moe Berg)
• Snow in August, Pete Hamill
• The Rabbi of Swat, Peter Levine
• The Golem’s Mighty Swing, James Sturm (a graphic novel)
Source: The Baseball Novel: A History and Annotated Bibliography of Adult Fiction, by Noel Schraufnagel (McFarland)
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