Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The article is about the 1956 novel. For the 1973 film adaptation, see Bang the Drum Slowly (film).Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel by Mark Harris, first published in 1956 by Knopf. The novel is the second in a series of four novels written by Harris that chronicles the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen. Bang the Drum Slowly was a sequel to The Southpaw (1953), with A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957) and It Looked Like For Ever (1979), completing the tetralogy of baseball novels by Harris.The novel was made into a 1956 U.S. Steel Hour television adaptation starring Paul Newman and a later film adaptation in 1973, with Harris writing the screenplay. Bang the Drum Slowly was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated and is the most popular of the four books published in this series, according to the Los Angeles Times. The last line of the novel, \"From here on in I rag nobody\", was ranked number 95 on American Book Review′s \"100 Best Last Lines from Novels\" in 2008."@en }
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- Bang_the_Drum_Slowly abstract "The article is about the 1956 novel. For the 1973 film adaptation, see Bang the Drum Slowly (film).Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel by Mark Harris, first published in 1956 by Knopf. The novel is the second in a series of four novels written by Harris that chronicles the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen. Bang the Drum Slowly was a sequel to The Southpaw (1953), with A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957) and It Looked Like For Ever (1979), completing the tetralogy of baseball novels by Harris.The novel was made into a 1956 U.S. Steel Hour television adaptation starring Paul Newman and a later film adaptation in 1973, with Harris writing the screenplay. Bang the Drum Slowly was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated and is the most popular of the four books published in this series, according to the Los Angeles Times. The last line of the novel, \"From here on in I rag nobody\", was ranked number 95 on American Book Review′s \"100 Best Last Lines from Novels\" in 2008.".