baseball redux

[Ted Samsel]

Paul DiF. sez: 
> 
> 
> I picked up this odd factoid years ago, and have subsequently
> lost all attribution:  most baseballs are fabricated in Haiti.
> Voodoo baseball, anyone?

If I am recalling correctly, the "laboring in the spirit" in vodoun
posession is described in Kwyol as being "mounted a cheveaux". (See
Zora Neale Hurston/Ishmael Reed). And with the baseball (supposedly)
being covered with horsehide....... well......

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
       "In a dying culture, snobs are a vital natural race horse"