Devil's Snake Curve

A humorous, historical, and hirsute miscellany thats the baseball book Howard Zinn would have written, if he hated the Yankees.The Devils 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 Ostergaards relationship with our national pastime, it allows for both the clover of a childhood outfield and the persistence of the games service to those in power. America and baseball are both hard to love or leave in this, by turns coruscating and heartfelt, debut.