cricket (was: Re: Who pulled my bloody chain?)

[oudies at flash.net]

roger, you've read giamatti on baseball i take it?  doesn't he say or
allude to somewhere in there something about the fact that the
standardization of the game -- or rather the fetishization of measurement
and geometry--was similar to and encouraged along by the fetishization of
engineering at the time in US culture?  something like david noble,
_america by design_ applied to baseball, in other words?

kelley