Title: The Dreyfus Affair Author: Peter Lefcourt Published by: Random House, 1992 ISBN: 0-679-40344-2 [hardcover, 290 pages]
Consider the possibilities: In the middle of a pennant race, a team's star shortstop falls in love with his second baseman.Which is just what happens in The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story, the most extraordinary, comic, and inventive baseball novel of our time. It chronicles the trials of Randy Dreyfus, the best-hitting, best-fielding, best-looking, and most happily married young shortstop in the major leagues, who has an unsettling experience in the shower after a game in Cleveland. And what's more, he's developed this uncontrollable urge to ask his double-play partner, second baseman D.J. Pickett, out on a date.
Dreyfus is in love. He doesn't know why, he doesn't know what to do about it, and, as he tells his shrink, he worries that he'll "never hit from the right side again."
Despite all efforts at restraint, Randy and D.J.'s illicit love is discovered . . . in a changing room at Neiman-Marcus, no less. What this does to their lives, their families, their team, the president of the United States, and our national pastime is hilarious, surprising, poignant, brilliant, and dazzling fun.
The Dreyfus Affair combines romance, comedy, social satire, and some of the finest baseball writing in years. The result is a rollicking, provocative odyssey through one unforgettable World Series Championship season.
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