Why read The Greatest Slump of All Time?

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Nine major-league baseball players, suffering from clinical depression, lead their team toward tragic triumph

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1 author picked The Greatest Slump of All Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Terry McDermott

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As a long-suffering fan of the Seattle Mariners, who have avoided success longer than any other North American sports team this century, how could I not love a novel whose central premise is what would happen if an elite professional sports team, the defending National League champs, fielded an entire line-up of players overwhelmed by clinical depression? This is the funniest sad book I’ve ever read. Well, maybe the second after Catch 22. All the characters play baseball, but the book is less about sport than it is about how humans survive a hostile world.

From Terry's list on The best novels about baseball.