The Art of Fielding is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It focuses on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners.
We were delighted to be joined by the author himself and in the first part of the episode we chatted about his inspiration and the long process of bringing the book to publication as well as some of the book's themes.
We were also joined by Ash Day (@AshDay29) for the round-table part of the show, in which we discussed the book in some length, and got slightly introspective about confronting failure and being in the presence of greatness, amongst other things!
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