It’s been popular to compare the early 21st century Oakland A’s to the movie Major League. Cheap ass ownership guts the team, forcing them to call on their limited resources to win anyway. This year’s team looks to draw on an earlier influence, the Great American Novel, by Phillip Roth. In Roth’s 1972 shaggy dog of a book, a beaten down ballclub, the Ruppert Mundys are introduced to us as lovable losers, but who by the end of the tale have shucked their role, to become hateful, and winners.
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