Bang the Drum Slowly

Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel by Mark Harris, published in 1956, which follows Henry Wiggen, a star pitcher for the fictional New York Mammoths, as he befriends a slow-talking catcher named Bruce Pearson who is terminally ill with Hodgkin's disease.

The novel explores themes of camaraderie, mortality, and the human condition, set against the backdrop of a baseball season.

It is the second in a series of four baseball novels by Harris and has been adapted into both a television play and a film.