Baseball

[Brian D. McCary]

I have no data to back this up, but the sinister baseball referance may be
aluding to the counterclockwise motion of the players as they advance
around the bases.  There is an old tradition that walking counterclockwise
around a particular kind of tree will force a miscarriage.  By moving in
this direction (which is opposite to the direction the shadow moves 
as the sun travels across the sky, in the northern hemisphere) it was 
believed that you could turn back time.  Sorry the details are so sketchy; 
it's been a while since I have even thought about any of this.

The theme of moving back in time, or moving against the natural flow
of the universe would fit well with the story of Tchitcherine, and
the following of shadows relates back to Geli Tripping, but I'll have to
think about the concept of records and record breaking a while to fit it
into this particular contstruct.

Brian McCary