“If sport is a way for us to interpret our country, and story a way to understand our lives, this glorious book marries the two—illuminating America through one of its most original games and the generations who have played it. S. L. Price’s reporting weaves narratives that help to explain our confounding selves and our competitive spirit. In knowing these stories, we emerge as the winners.”
—Tom Rinaldi, New York Times bestselling author of The Red Bandanna, Emmy-award winning Fox News reporter

“A sweeping, exquisitely written, exhaustively reported, authoritative book that, inevitably, will be filed under ‘sports’ but is only peripherally about the sticks and balls. S. L. Price holds a mirror to America—present and past—and deftly shows how this ascending sport explains and encapsulates so much.”
—Jon Wertheim, senior writer for Sports Illustrated and correspondent for 60 Minutes

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