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Has anyone tried to read the 800+ page novel by Don DeLillo called Underworld?
[url]http://perival.com/delillo/underworld.html[/url]
I started reading it because of Pafko at the Wall, which became the prologue called the triumph of death, or something similar. I figured the book would have similar baseball references, but the story obliquely touches on the ball, and how Nick got it, and dips into a whole slew of other political and newsworthy topics of yesteryear.
Pafko at the Wall was a really nice, sixty page short story, which talks about Game Three of the 1951 Playoffs, but focuses more on certain fans and what they did during the game. DeLillo maintained that Gleason, Hoover and sinatra were at the game, though they were probably not together in the box seat as described in Underworld. Cotter martin is a fictional character, as is the yuppie and red-head guy in the jacket.
This may be one of those books that you need to read a second time to get, although the prologue was easy to get in one sitting.
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