Henry Wiggen

Not to be confused with Henry Wiggin.

Henry Wiggen was a fictional baseball player who was the subject of four novels by Mark Harris: The Southpaw (1953), Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957), and It Looked Like For Ever (1979). Wiggen, who was born on July 4, 1931[1] in Perkinsville, New York,[2] joined the fictitious "New York Mammoths" in 1952[3] as a pitcher. His teammates nicknamed him "Author", because he was always writing.

  1. ^ The Southpaw, by Mark Harris, 1953; published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company
  2. ^ Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture, by David McGimpsey, published January 2000 by the University of Indiana Press
  3. ^ Henry Wiggen is still bringing the heat, by Ivan Maisel, at ESPN; published July 11, 2007; retrieved July 24, 2014