Much of the novel focuses around members of the Westish baseball team, during their best season in the history of the college. His estranged daughter Pella comes to live with him during Henry's junior year, after leaving her architect husband and life in San Francisco. After publishing a well-received book and spending many years as a professor at Harvard, Affenlight returns to his alma mater as president of the college. The school re-branded itself around the Melville visit, erecting a statue of the author and renaming its sports teams as the Harpooners.

The school has a particular attachment to author Herman Melville, ever since a Westish student named Guert Affenlight discovered that Melville had visited Westish as part of a lecturing tour in the 1880s. Westish College is a small liberal arts college located in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Michigan. By his junior year, Henry is excelling as a player (especially on defense) and is drawing significant attention from Major League Baseball scouts.

After playing a game against a team from Chicago, Westish College student Mike Schwartz sees Henry play and recruits him to attend Westish and improve the baseball team. Although physically short and not muscular, Henry has an unusual gift for fielding, and excels at the demanding position of shortstop. Henry Skrimshander begins the novel as a 17-year-old playing on a Legion baseball team in Lankton, South Dakota. The novel was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and was featured on several year-end lists. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. Urn:oclc:816486722 Republisher_date 20170118163550 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1065 Scandate 20170114233247 Scanner Art of Fielding is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. OL17698075W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.55 Pages 552 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:031619218X

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The art of fielding by chad harbach