Malamud’s Incorporation of Actual
Baseball is one of the oldest sports in the US. It dates back to Civil War times. Throughout baseball history, many events happen that later become very famous and known. The Natural by Bernard Malamud tells a story about a young striving baseball player, Roy Hobbs, that is trying to become a baseball hero. Malamud revealed after writing the novel that he had no interest in or knowledge of baseball. In preparation for his novel, he read about what was, in 1952, still unquestionably “the national pastime.” Out of baseball ritual and lore, Malamud distilled the heroic component of the game as a measure of man, similar in nature to Homeric battles, chivalric tournaments, or the Arthurian quest for the Holy Grail. The shooting of Ed Waitkus in 1949 by an emotionally disturbed girl in her Chicago hotel room; Chuck Hostetler’s fall between third and home base when he could have won the sixth game of the 1945 world series; and The 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal are some of the events incorporated
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Approximate Word count = 726
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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