- The article is about the 1956 novel. For the 1973 film adaptation, see Bang the Drum Slowly (film)
| Bang the Drum Slowly | |
| Author | Mark Harris |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publication date | 1956 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
Bang the Drum Slowly was Mark Harris's most celebrated baseball novel, a sequel to The Southpaw (1953). Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by Mark Harris. Mark Harris ( November 19, 1922 in Mount Vernon New York – May 30, 2007) was an American Novelist literary The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. Mark Harris ( November 19, 1922 in Mount Vernon New York – May 30, 2007) was an American Novelist literary The Southpaw was the first of the Henry Wiggen Baseball novels by Mark Harris, published in 1953. First published in 1956 and made famous by a 1956 U.S. Steel Hour television adaptation starring Paul Newman and a later film adaptation in 1973. The United States Steel Hour (aka Theater Guild on the Air) was an American radio Anthology series which embarked on the ambitious Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by Mark Harris.
Harris's narrator Henry "Author" Wiggen, a star pitcher, tells the story of a baseball season with the New York Mammoths (a fictional team based on the New York Yankees) -- a season notable for the team's success but blighted by the Hodgkin's Disease of catcher Bruce Pearson. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. Wiggen tries to be supportive of Pearson while concealing his illness.
There is no drum in the film or the book. The title comes from the song The Streets of Laredo, sung by one of the ballplayers (Piney Woods, a back-up catcher recently recalled from the minors) at a team gathering. "Streets of Laredo" ( Roud 2 also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous Cowboy Ballad in which a dying cowboy dispenses
The novel is written in the vernacular, with idiosyncratic awkward writing by the "author" that Harris has "employed," pitcher Henry Wiggen.
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