Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Coffee House Press, 2014
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781566893466 (electronic bk.) MWT12257715, 1566893461 (electronic bk.) 12257715
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The Devil's Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns with militarism, Guantanamo, and the modern security state. An essay, a miscellany, and a passionate unsettling of Josh Ostergaard's relationship with our national pastime, it allows for both the clover of a childhood outfield and the persistence of the game's service to those in power. America and baseball are both hard to love or leave in this, by turns coruscating and heartfelt, debut
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