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Henry Skrimshander is a skinny 17-year-old hayseed who can't get around on a high fastball, but he is a Roy Hobbsian natural with the glove.
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The story here is about a college baseball phenom named Henry Skrimshander.
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"But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've got a carpenter's plane there in the bar -- wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough."
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'But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've got a carpenter's plane there in the bar -- wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough.'
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The novel centers on the Westish College Harpooners, a Division III team from the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan that sees its fortunes rise and then rise some more with the arrival of a nearly magical young shortstop named Henry Skrimshander.
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Its enigmatic central character is Henry Skrimshander, a shortstop with major-league potential.
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Our hero with a lot to learn, Henry Skrimshander, is recruited to play baseball at little Westish College on the shores of Lake Michigan.
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The former England cricket captain Mike Atherton last week called it "an outstanding novel about sport", saying: "Any sportsman who has choked will recognise and empathise with Skrimshander's final humiliation."
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It is the story of Henry Skrimshander, a boy from the Midwest with a talent for catching and throwing a baseball.
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Harbach seems to be laughing at the urge to write it with the device of that statue of Melville, as if to say its shadow is causing him to harbour the same debilitating sense of ambition that brought Henry Skrimshander so low.
Polycarp55 commented on the word Skrimshander
The word in context means someone who is green, new, not truly a sailor. Ishmael wears clothes without the salt from the sea. Kind of like when cowboys are depicted with clothes that seem to be dry cleaned. (From Moby Dick or the Whale)
May 4, 2011