Opening Day
“I see great things in baseball.”
– Walt Whitman
“The playing field becomes a landscape, fixed and isolated and trapped, between the borders of its own fabrication.”
– Anonymous
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting
and baseball is like writing.
You can never tell with either
how it will go
or what you will do;
generating excitement -
a fever in the victim -
pitcher, catcher, fielder, batter.
Victim in what category?
Owlman watching from the press box?
To whom does it apply?
Who is excited? Might it be I?
– Marianne Moore
March 31, 2008 at 1:11 pm
even with all the problems–there is still nothing like it–
March 31, 2008 at 1:14 pm
It’s pure, Scot.
Even with all the problems.
Baseball does not rely on brute force, like other sporting events, except for the power of the batter’s swing and the small white hurricanes hurtled from the pitcher’s mound.
March 31, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Speaking of hurricanes: I rather like that rainbow colored tunnel that Dock Ellis said he pitched down all day during his infamous LSD no-hitter in San Diego in 1970.
March 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Oh, Jeez, I’d forgotten about that, John. Great story.
April 1, 2008 at 1:54 pm
That does ring very true indeed. The description, the year, the guy, absolutely everything.