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The boys of bummer: Novel goes to heart of what baseball lost in 1919 ?Black Sox' scandal.

Byline: Bill Eichenberger

Mar. 11--The narrator and protagonist of the James T. Farrell novel Dreaming Baseball knows all about yesterdays. Yesterday, in the summer of 1919, Mickey Donovan was 18 and breaking into the big leagues with the Chicago White Sox. Yesterday, he idolized White Sox players such as third baseman Buck Weaver and starting pitcher Eddie Cicotte.

Yesterday, he was strong and young, and dreamed of one day being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But today "Clover" Donovan is an old man, a major-league scout who in the 1950s is beating the bushes in a Florida baseball camp looking for the Next Big Thing.

The novel -- written ...

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