San Francisco Chronicle
“Cheers to Mark Harris, who gives us by far the best ‘serious’ baseball novel published.”—San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times
“Even those whose knowledge of baseball is elemental will find the book worth reading. For let there be no doubt about it, this is a distinguished and unusual book.”—New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle
“Cheers to Mark Harris, who gives us by far the best ‘serious’ baseball novel published.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday Review
"Mr. Harris's novelistic achievement is a considerable one. He has taken a long, serious, and penetrating look at American mores and morals. And he has done this while telling a highly dramatic, colorful, and absorbingly exciting action story."—Saturday Review
New York Herald Tribune
"It's greatly to Mr. Harris's credit that he makes his story credible, lends it a good deal of suspense and. . . gets the reader to thinking that Henry Wiggen deserves a fine future in baseball and out."—New York Herald Tribune
The New York Times - George Vecsey
"As the temperature warmed up in recent days, there was no better way to prepare for the season than to reread Mark Harris’s The Southpaw, one of the finest sports books I know. . . . Harris loves the game itself, and he never loses sight of its value to America." —George Vecsey, The New York Times
The New York Times
"As the temperature warmed up in recent days, there was no better way to prepare for the season than to reread Mark Harris’s The Southpaw, one of the finest sports books I know. . . . Harris loves the game itself, and he never loses sight of its value to America." —George Vecsey, The New York Times
— George Vecsey
