罗伯特·库弗的第二部小说《宇宙棒球联盟》以游戏性的态度和手法,表达了他对历史、宗教、神话和哲学等持有的后现代主义观点。他运用语言媒介对神话、宗教和历史进行戏仿,使文本阅读充满无穷的趣味,同时赋予文本以深刻的当代意义,并借此对传统进行反思。本文拟从语言游戏、神话游戏和宗教戏仿三个方面,分析该小说中的游戏策略和目的,揭示库弗的文学创新精神。 Robert Cuffer’s second novel, The Major League Baseball, expresses his postmodernist views on history, religion, mythology and philosophy in a game-oriented manner. He uses the language medium to imitate myths, religions and histories, so that the reading of the text is full of endless fun while giving the text a profound contemporary meaning and reflecting on the tradition. This article attempts to analyze the strategy and purpose of the game in the novel from three aspects: language games, mythology games and religious parody, and to reveal the creative spirit of Covery.