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The game of DC Farring Baseball - a game that can shed light on our secret national character, was born in 1954 to find embedded in its history, structures, statistics and conventions. Seven years ago, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the color line of the game, finally disqualifying baseball as a contender for any democratic claim. Two years earlier, American servicemen in Europe had happily rebuilt Nuremberg Stadium in Balpark and held regular games where Hitler had recently held a Nazi rally.

Thus, French-born cultural historian Jacques Barzon emphasized in a 1954 article that "anyone who wants to know the heart and mind of the United States should better learn baseball," a growing generation of writers, artists and intellectuals. I could hear him as a player. Challenge and, for the first time, take it seriously. That they did. Until 1999, the year of Joe de Maggio's death, the public admiration for the conservative pundits, Dean George Will, and the Yale Classical Scholar, Donald Kagan, can be traced back to the ideal form of democracy (Jefferson or Peruclin). Is. Novelist Don Delillo captures a single, glorious moment in the "Underworld" from the 1951 National League Covenant race, his dark masterpiece accounting for the psychological and spiritual costs of the second half of the American century. All of this paved the way for a playwright like Tony Award-winning 2002 playwright Richard Greenberg, in which one character had to observe that baseball "achieves the tragic vision that liberates democracy." In ways that upset both conservatives and liberals, "someone will lose."

Someone always loses. And now - just for the A-Rods League's mandated vacation from the 2014 season - is a mental meta-baseball book that spends more time thinking about all these losers. The "Devil's Snake Curve" will be a particularly warm welcome to those who sincerely love the game but find it easy to compare its slow, slow progress to the slow, slow progress of the American experience. Resist similes. Its young author, Josh Ostergard, has emerged from an oppressive generation that finds hero worship a mockery, meaning that individual fictions of any era are no less interesting than he is. More social, cultural or political forces have endorsed these legends. Top

Book Review Get the newsletter: Be the first to see reviews, news and features in the New York Times Book Review. Sign up The "Devil's Snake Curve" is made up of proportions - mostly about the length of the Facebook status update - so that it can absorb and absorb this short burst of energy over a long and ridiculous space. In action, "This book is like a day in the ball park," Ostergard writes, proudly but not wrong. "His stories are a murmur between innings. They are the same pitch that makes a game. They take care of the wall and turn it into dark corners. The game is played in pieces. Meaning accumulation. Memories disrupt history. Each of us should be an umpire.