Title
Have to Write a Baseball Story Sometime: Hemingway, the Busher and The Old Man and the Sea
Document Type
Article
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
COinS
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.