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The devil's snake curve : a fan's notes from left field, Josh Ostergaard

Label
The devil's snake curve : a fan's notes from left field
Title
The devil's snake curve
Title remainder
a fan's notes from left field
Statement of responsibility
Josh Ostergaard
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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. 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."--
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Ostergaard, Josh
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Baseball
  • Popular culture
  • Baseball stories, American
  • Culture populaire
  • Récits de base-ball américains
  • SPORTS & RECREATION
  • LITERARY COLLECTIONS
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Baseball
  • Baseball stories, American
  • Popular culture
  • United States
Label
The devil's snake curve : a fan's notes from left field, Josh Ostergaard
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-253)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Origins -- Machines -- War -- Animals -- Nationalism -- Umpire's rules -- Sources
Control code
858603157
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
253 pages
Isbn
9781566893459
Lccn
2013035163
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
System control number
(OCoLC)858603157
Label
The devil's snake curve : a fan's notes from left field, Josh Ostergaard
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-253)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Origins -- Machines -- War -- Animals -- Nationalism -- Umpire's rules -- Sources
Control code
858603157
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
253 pages
Isbn
9781566893459
Lccn
2013035163
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
System control number
(OCoLC)858603157

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