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Harper’s: Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city

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posted 1 week ago by Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) to books, minor leagues | 4 comment(s)

There are thousands of young men on minor-league baseball rosters working toward a spot in the majors. Most of them won’t make it. With this in mind, essayist Lucas Mann spent the 2010 season in Clinton, Iowa, watching the city’s Class A team, the LumberKings. In his new book, Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere (Pantheon), Mann writes about becoming intimate with the players, the fans, and the town, and explores the themes of nostalgia, failure, and hope.

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51. Don Geovany Soto (chris h.) posted on May 15, 2012 at 01:35 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Shhh, Lassus. That doesn't fit the narrative.

52. just plain joe posted on May 15, 2012 at 01:45 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

The world needs more drafts, they are fun.

Unless you're being drafted into the army, then not so much.

53. SteveF posted on May 15, 2012 at 04:54 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Wait for the inevitable Repoz pinata thread.

What's a Repoz pinata thread? Is that the one where we try to guess the 50 most likely things to fall out of a Repoz Pinata?

54. Jolly Old St. Nick Done Jumped The Ship

posted on May 15, 2012 at 05:31 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

What's a Repoz pinata thread?

It's an article or column posted by Repoz that's all but guaranteed to elicit either unanimous snark or an off-topic "hijack", which in turn affords certain brown diaper babies a chance to get all indignant about the "hijack" instead of just ignoring it.

55. Gonfalon Bubble posted on May 15, 2012 at 05:56 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

What's a Repoz pinata thread? Is that the one where we try to guess the 50 most likely things to fall out of a Repoz Pinata?

Surely half of them are the only 25 flexidiscs ever pressed of the Judys' "Guyana Punch."

56. pkb33 posted on May 15, 2012 at 10:59 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Because the idea that something actually went actionably wrong in one out of 37 cases is simply too insane to consider.

I certainly consider it possible.

What I haven't heard are any facts suggesting it actually happened in Braun's case.

57. cercopithecus aethiops posted on May 15, 2012 at 11:08 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

What I haven't heard are any facts suggesting it actually happened in Braun's case.

The thing is, Shyam Das disagrees with you, and has been precluded from telling us why. So how could you have heard these facts you wish for? My point was that I haven't heard any facts supporting the suggestion that the arbitrator is some power-tripping loon who's been looking for any pretext to stick it to MLB since he took the job thirteen years ago. (And I know that you're not the one who suggested that.)

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