sentences:  It has been suggested by Michele Schiavone in her study of Tunis' influence on Malamud and Roth that, as an early fan of the Dodgers, Malamud was familiar with Tunis' books and borrowed from them, "consciously or not".Bruce Brooks' introduction to the 1987 edition of "The Kid from Tomkinsville" says that Tunis "obviously" inspired Mark Harris, author of "Bang the Drum Slowly".And in what D. G. Myers in "Best Baseball Books Ever" called "one of the best pieces of (literary) criticism ever written", "The Kid from Tomkinsville" is referenced by Nathan Zuckerman, the main character in Philip Roth's novel "American Pastoral".