The Natural - Perennial Classics Author:Bernard Malamud Considered by many to be the greatest baseball novel ever written, this classic morality tale features one of the most memorable characters in all of literature, Roy Hobbs -- a talented athlete whose promising career is derailed by a youthful indiscretion. When Roy makes a comeback as an aging player, his struggle to achieve greatness in t... more »he midst of recreant temptations becomes the subject of an epic story about our national need for heroes and our simultaneous desire to see them fail.« less