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"The girls in Europe is nuts over ball players": Ring Lardner and Virginia Woolf.

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From: Nine
Date: 20050322
Author:Avery, Todd

Separated by much more than the same language, England and the United States have nevertheless long shared a common fascination with sports in which the most basic component involves a confrontation between two people mediated by a short distance and two similar pieces of equipment: from a space of several yards, one person throws a fist-sized ball toward a second person, who attempts to hit the ball with a piece of wood. As unofficial national sports, cricket and baseball have each generated a rich literary tradition. For every Eric Greenberg, W. P. Kinsella, or Bernard Malamud, ...

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