What do they know of C.L.R. who do not cricket know?

The writer Joseph O'Neill comes up with one of the more ingenious reasons why if you don't know and understand cricket, you should learn to. Unless you do, you'll never be able to appreciate C.L.R. James's 'strange and wonderful' Beyond a Boundary. There is what amounts to a review of the book here - long, fascinating and reflecting on cricket and America. (Thanks: DB.)