Henry Wiggen was a fictional baseball player who was the subject of four novels by Mark Harris: The Southpaw (1953), Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957), and It Looked Like For Ever (1979). Wiggen, who was born on July 4, 1931[1] in Perkinsville, New York,[2] joined the fictitious "New York Mammoths" in 1952[3] as a pitcher. His teammates nicknamed him "Author", because he was always writing.