The New York Times Book Review – Gregory Cowles: Chad Harbach makes the case for baseball, thrillingly, in his slow, precious and altogether excellent first novel…If it seems a stretch for a baseball novel to hold truth and beauty and the entire human condition in its mitt, well, The Art of Fielding isn't really a baseball novel at all, or not only. It's also a campus novel and a bromance (and for that matter a full-fledged gay romance), a comedy of manners and a tragicomedy of errors…