David Wolf

Sheesh, I take a year off and people are digging up 11-year-old threads.

(I considered doing that for my grand return-- digging up the oldest thread on the board.)

Back to "Foul" /Hawkins/ Wolf / Molinas:

Some kind of movie tying the 1951 and 1961 scandals could probably eventually work, except the sympathetic characters (players) come off as dupes at best, and the most interesting characters (like Molinas) are complete scum.

 

I read the book on Hawkins and loved it. I also did not realize the thread was 11 years old so I wen thread and looked Wolf up. But Wolf died in 2008.

Dave Wolf - BoxRec

Here is a tribute to Wolf.

Dave Wolf: A Remembrance

 

Wolf is kind of like a W.P. Kinsella of sports book writing: one great book, then gone.

 

If you waited a couple more months to resurrect this, it would have defeated Tadd Fujikawa for longest dormant thread to be updated.

 

Book still available online, but prices start at $45 on Amazon ... and $235 if you want a "new" copy.

 

Huh? He wrote a bunch of books. At least one other baseball novel (Iowa Baseball Confederacy or something), a few short story collections, plus his First Nation based stuff.

 

Yeah, Kinsella actually wrote a ton. He was a prolific short story writer. He had one big hit, that's true. But he wrote a bunch. He did disappear for about 15 years after he was hit by a car and left really fucked up. He couldn't write anymore, he said, because he couldn't concentrate.

He had a pretty weird life, all in all. Worth reading about.

 

Wikipedia confirms this. Thanks for the heads up.

Looks like he more enduring cultural significance in Canada than in the US. Kind of like Loverboy.

 

Two points for the Loverboy reference. Would have also accepted The Tragically Hip.

He basically wrote about two things: indigenous culture and baseball. If you weren't interested in either of those things, he was easy to miss. Impossible to miss otherwise. I devoured his baseball stuff when I was young. There is a lot of Kinsella on my shelves.

 

One thing I remember from reading Shoeless Joe and Iowa Baseball Whatever is that he likes redheads with freckles.