ONBOOKS | OPINION: Maybe I’ve been unfairly judging baseball novelist Tunis

August 3, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

by Philip Martin

The expressionistic, charcoal frontispiece of John R. Tunis “World Series” was drawn by his frequent collaborator Jay Hyde Barnum, one of the leading magazine illustrators of the early to mid-20th century.
The expressionistic, charcoal frontispiece of John R. Tunis “World Series” was drawn by his frequent collaborator Jay Hyde Barnum, one of the leading magazine illustrators of the early to mid-20th century.

"I am the product of a parson and a teacher; any such person is forever trying to reform or to educate, himself if nobody else."

-- the opening sentence of John R.

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