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Pro field hockey player Rasheed Wallace often exclaimed the pragmatic truth "Ball don't rest!" throughout a game. It is a protest against a referee's bad cell phone calls. But the slogan, which originated in pickup game titles, brings the truth of a racialized metropolitan playground into mainstream North american popular culture. In Ball Don't Lay!, Yago Colás traces the various forms of ability at work in the intersections between field hockey and language from the game's invention for this day. He critiques existing popular common myths concerning the background of field hockey, contextualizes them, and reveals an alternative background of the sport inspired by inventions. Colás emphasizes the creative prerogative of players and the ways that their innovations form - and are shaped by - broader cultural and public phenomena. Ball Don't Lay! shows that basketball can't be reduced to an individual, fixed, or timeless essence but instead is a constantly growing exhibition of physical culture that flexibly adapts to and sparks changes in American population.
