Josh Ostergaard

The Devil's Snake Curve (eBook, ePUB)

A Fan's Notes from Left Field

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ostergaard's background in anthropology lends a real rigor to the connections drawn between baseball and American political life, making for anecdotes that reveal their implications in serious and surprising ways

The structuring of the book is associative and personal, making it of interest to essay readers and general interest readers more broadly, not just baseball fans

That said, the wealth of stories and information about the 20th century of America's pastime should be of interest to serious baseball readers, of which there is a substantial market

Ostergaard's take inverts cliches. The stance is distinctly progressive, one in which nostalgia for both an idea of America and a childhood passion for the sport are related, much as his disillusionment with both coincide in adulthood

Ostergaard is an active participant in baseball scholarship and research groups, and has presented his academic work on the subject at conferences at Cooperstown and elsewhere.

The book began as a novel and was reworked as an essay, and remains literary

There's a real appetite for counterintuitive narratives about baseball (see ESPN.com's recent story on the insertion of God Bless America in the seventh inning stretch), and the book speaks to that impulse

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781566893466
• Artikelnr.: 40776647

Autorenporträt

Josh Ostergaard: Josh Ostergaard holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and an MA in cultural anthropology. He has been an urban anthropologist at the Field Museum and now works at Graywolf Press.