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Why the Baseball Diamond Settles the Country’s Ugliest Debate

By Chris KobiellaRolling 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…