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Malamud portrays baseball as a grotesque circus, observed by fans who, far from celebrating the players, taunt and discourage the Knights. In the novel, baseball is hardly as glamorous as it is often made out to be, since Malamud exposes the cruelty and violence that underpins dynamics between players, fans, and managers. Baseball thus becomes a metaphor for American society in this era more generally: though American culture in the 1950s is generally perceived as staid and conservative, the 1950s were also a period of intense corruption and disillusionment. By turning to America’s most beloved national pastime—baseball—and reinventing it as…