{"id":135213,"date":"2019-04-05T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=135213"},"modified":"2019-04-05T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:09:51","slug":"theres-no-dying-in-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/05\/theres-no-dying-in-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Dying in Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his new book<\/em>\u00a0Baseball Epic<\/a>, Jason Novak brings to life the stars of early-twentieth-century baseball. A selection of his portraits and biographies in miniature appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jason Novak is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in <\/em>The New Yorker, <\/em>The Paris Review, and <\/em>The Believer, among other places. He lives in Oakland, California.<\/em><\/p>\n

Used by permission from <\/em>Baseball Epic<\/a> (Coffee House Press, 2019). Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Jason Novak.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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