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Bump is yet another figure in a string of baseball players in the novel who fail to achieve their dreams of success and elevated status—Bump hopes to become the league’s “best outfielder” before he dies of injuries sustained from hitting the outfield wall—and are thus replaced by younger, more talented players. The Whammer and Hobbs also suffer similar defeats, by Hobbs and Herman Youngberry, respectively. Malamud suggests that baseball is an industry that churns out players, affords them temporary success, then replaces them quickly: it is a sort of assembly line or manufacturing plant that treats its players not as…