* Baseball and Ford (not Whitey)

February 8, 2010

Here’s an interesting post from TheYankeeU.com about two American pop culture icons: Baseball and the cinematic western, in this case Bernard Malamud’s classic The Natural juxtaposed with John Ford’s classic, The Searchers.

Nice work, even if it does employ Jacues Barzun’s dreaded quote about baseball, a.k.a., “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

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