FTP, identify this Philip Roth novel narrated by Word Smith, which shares its name with a phrase coined by Francis Marion Crawford.
The narrator writes a letter to Mao Zedong in response to this novel's climax.  A dwarf replaces the Babylonian Gil Gamesh after the attempted murder of Mike "the Mouth" Masterson, while other characters include Spit, who was banned for depositing the contents of his sinuses on the ball, and John Baal, who never hit a homerun while sober.  The novel concerns the homeless baseball team the Rupert-Mundys and the untold story of the Patriot League.  FTP, identify this Philip Roth novel narrated by Word Smith, which shares its name with a phrase coined by Francis Marion Crawford.
The narrator writes a letter to Mao Zedong in response to this novel's climax.  
The Great American Novel