Henry Skrimshander loses his passion for this activity after accidentally injuring Owen Donne in a 2011 novel by Chad Harbach.
In one novel, some characters who engage in this activity, including a boy nicknamed "Nickname," are fed "Jewish Wheaties" by a teenage nuclear physicist. In that novel about this activity, "Word" Smith tells of the killing of Roland Agni after he discovers the secret of Gil Gamesh. Henry Skrimshander loses his passion for this activity after accidentally injuring Owen Donne in a 2011 novel by Chad Harbach. In Don (*) DeLillo's Underworld, an object used in this activity is bought from Cotter Martin's father. Philip Roth's The Great American Novel is about this activity, which the protagonist of one novel quits after being shot with a silver bullet by Harriet Bird. Holden Caulfield's brother Allie writes poems in green ink on an object used in this sport. For 10 points, Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, plays what sport using "Wonderboy," his bat?
In one novel, some characters who engage in this activity, including a boy nicknamed "Nickname," are fed "Jewish Wheaties" by a teenage nuclear physicist.
baseball [prompt on sports until read; anti-prompt on answers like fielding, catching, batting, or pitching]