Baseball is ideal for explaining American economic precarity: the players try desperately to get home safe, but almost always fail to do so.
Ryan Lackey
Ryan Lackey is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, where his studies include contemporary fiction, masculinity, and religion. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and, most recently, the collection David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Fiction and Faith (Bloomsbury, 2019). 
