Philip Roth

MARIAN LEIFSEN'S SONSir:The article about the recruiting of high school basketball star Tom Leifsen (A House Divided, March 5) describes the pressures that success brings to bear upon young athletes. However, young...

Sirs:Philip Roth (, March 12) was being characteristically modest in your LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER concerning his baseball prowess as a youth. The fact stands that Roth was considered one of the brightest prospects...

"Why baseball for your new book The Great American Novel?" Philip Roth was asked last week.

Fact and fiction flourish in spring training every year. For fact, we offer a rundown on the Chicago White Sox. For fiction, Novelist Philip Roth's star rookie, Gil Gamesh.

The art of pitching baseballs, it turns out, is a little something Sophia Loren picked up from American troops stationed in Naples during World War II—as she demonstrated when opening a sports festival near Rome...