The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Have to Write a Baseball Story Sometime: Hemingway, the Busher and The Old Man and the Sea

Document Type

Article

Citation

Peterson, Scott D. "Have to Write a Baseball Story Sometime: Hemingway, the Busher and The Old Man and the Sea." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 29, no. 1-2 (Fall-Spring 2020-2021): 89-102.

Annotation

Considers the concept of "vernacular modernism" and the influence on Hemingway of Ring Lardner's baseball stories, which captured the raw, uncultured voice of a character known as the Busher. Peterson turns "the Busher" into a metaphor for a kind of everyman outsider as he tracks Hemingway's mixed feelings about baseball from his early writings and letters to the protagonist's thoughts about Joe DiMaggio in The Old Man and the Sea.

Published in

NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture

Volume

29

Issue

1-2

Date

Fall 2020

Pages

89-102

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