Why the Baseball Diamond Settles the Country’s Ugliest Debate
By Chris Kobiella••Rolling Stone
Every ballfield represents the duality of the immigrant experience: the infield is governed by rules 90 feet, four balls, three strikes.
Probably nothing in American life has been over-intellectualized so often — or so preciously — as the baseball field. Depending on which writer, academic, or theologian you listen to, the diamond sym…