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This 3 page paper discusses Tom Dyja's book "Play for a Kingdom." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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War, to tell the story of men caught up in the bloodiest war the nation has ever fought. The story begins when a company of Union soldiers, "Company L, the
Brooklyn 14th," only 18 days from the end of their service, finds itself in a Virginia clearing that has somehow survived untouched by the war (Lychack, 1998). Its sunny
and green and peaceful and the company cant resist it. Some of the soldiers fall asleep, some sit and eat, and one, Lyman Alder, digs in his knapsack and
brings out a baseball that hes carried with him throughout his tour of duty (Lychack, 1998). Someone produces a bat that hes been carrying in a bedroll, and they
begin to play the game that reminds them of home: baseball (Lychack, 1998). The men are enjoying themselves tossing the ball back and forth, when Lyman throws a fastball
to a man named Newt Fry; a voice with a Southern accent calls out from the woods, "Do you call that a speedball?" (Lychack, 1998). A company of Alabamians has
come up quietly and caught the Yanks by surprise. But instead of a bloodbath, the soldiers from the two sides begin to play "a compelling series of five magical
ball games" (Lychack, 1998). What they are doing is extremely dangerous, in many senses. Not only is fraternization with the enemy a court martial offence, but the
greater danger is that they men will see the enemy soldiers as real people, not as faceless "Yanks" or "Rebs". Once someone becomes a person instead of a symbol,
things change, and its heartbreaking that after playing for a week, the two companies face each other on the battlefield at Spotsylvania, one of the worst clashes of the war.
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