Name: Ball Don’t Lie | Jay Caspian Kang
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Ball Don’t Lie | Jay Caspian Kang

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AdvertisementSubmit a letter:Email usReviewed:by Robert Scoop JacksonHaymarket, 203 pp., $36.95; $16.95 (paper)Sports metaphors, as a rule, are silly and rarely accurate. Football is not really like war, regardless of what its legion of ex-players and commentators will tell you. Baseball does not provide a window into America—the gentle tension between laconic, quasi-agrarian pacing and the game’s values of grit and meditative cunning feels nostalgic to the point of absurdity now. There was a time when every salaried sportswriter would anthropomorphize every three-year-old filly into Joan...

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