Baseball

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> 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.

That's widdershins.

And there's nothing more subversive than fast-pitch softball on
a Sunday afternoon in the barrio!

Swingale'!

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
     "driving a Hudson Hornet on the disinformation triple bypass:
      cruising for burgers & garage sales. Hooks baited, lines en-
      tangled, roadkill cooked"