Review: Robert Coover's 'The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.' Remains a Mesmerizing Literary Oddity

Summary

A review and analysis of Robert Coover's 1968 novel "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop.," recently reissued by New York Review Books. The article explores the novel's strange title, its mesmerizing sentence structure, and its unique protagonist, describing it as a rarified and unusual literary work that captivates the reader despite—or because of—its unconventional nature.