‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now,’ and spring means baseball is back. Great authors have always been drawn to the national pastime—it's a way to write about America, from The Natural to Moneyball.

The next step on the path to baseball literacy comes from defensive statistics. These metrics are used in several ways: assessing a player’s value and efficiency while fielding balls in play and ...

The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach’s 2011 novel about a brilliant defensive shortstop whose skills leave him after an errant throw hits a teammate in the head, was a literary sensation upon its release ...

The dominant emotion in The Art of Fielding—the much-anticipated, because expensively acquired, first novel by Chad Harbach, a founding editor of the literary magazine n+1—is nostalgia for life at a ...

A little more than a week ago, Jon Heyman of CBS sent out a tweet wondering why it was that Starling Marte and Bryce Harper had the same WAR. Heyman was quoting Baseball-Reference's version of WAR, ...

It is often said that 50 percent of success is showing up. But when it comes to conventional fielding statistics in baseball, getting in good position to make the play can actually put you at a ...

A good baseball coach and a good novelist are a lot alike, according to Chad Harbach's satisfyingly old-fashioned debut, The Art of Fielding. If you're a coach, muses Mike Schwartz, catcher for the ...

Chad Harbach's debut novel, The Art of Fielding, is as much about literary fiction as it is about America's national pastime. The book follows the baseball team at a small liberal arts college in ...

Which team has the best-fielding keystone combination in baseball? The answer will surprise you. Your initial reaction may be to think that this is an easy question. After all, in 2010 the Yankees' ...

Last week, Rawlings revealed the American League and National League Gold Glove Award finalists for the 2022 Major League Baseball season. Thursday, the Fielding Bible Award winners were announced. A ...

Michigan State University baseball jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, but a steady Central Michigan comeback lifted the Chippewas to a 6-5 win Wednesday afternoon. MSU has now dropped seven of its last ...