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The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field
by Josh Ostergaard
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1566893453
- ISBN 13
- 9781566893459
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. First Edition / First Printing (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light wear to lower rear corner. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 253 pages.
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.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000003133
- Title
- The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field
- Author
- Josh Ostergaard
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1566893453
- ISBN 13
- 9781566893459
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- April 2014
- Keywords
- essays, baseball, baseball stories, alternative, history
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Games & Sports;
- Size
- 8vo
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