Panelists: Emily Nemens, Emily Rutter, Andrea Williams

Moderator: Gabe Fried, MU Department of English

Baseball is often hailed as the most literary of sports. Countless writers have taken up our national pastime in compelling, revealing, and moving ways. The line-up of this all-star panel includes three authors whose recent books, whether fiction or nonfiction, offer fresh, surprising insights into the baseball and its connection to the American Dream—its optimism, plausibility, and complexity.