TY - BOOK AU - Roth,Philip TI - GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL SN - 9780099889403 U1 - F PY - 2016////01/01 CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Fiction KW - Baseball players -- Fiction KW - Baseball teams -- Fiction KW - Scandals -- Fiction N1 - A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the "Great American Novel" and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories ER -