re. Ballspiel in der Unterwelt

[joeallonby]

> --- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Baseball was invented so that, every spring, another
>> dozen or so writers would have a subject around
>> which to indulge mawkish reminiscence about their
>> long-gone childhoods--the smell of neatsfoot oil on
>> leather, pine tar on ash--and the ignorant, racist
>> crackers--drooling Redman and fondling their
>> nuts--recalled as youthful white demigods astride
>> the summer earth, bats in hand, until age, as it
>> must, claims their grace and they evanesce into the
>> misty worlds of used car dealerships, beer
>> distribution, and bowling alley management; torpor
>> and vindictive pettiness; sloth, alcohol, and
>> morbid self-pity.
>> 

Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Curt Flood, Doc Ellis, Bill Lee, Bob
Gibson, Reggie Jackson, Pedro Martinez, Sammy Sosa, Nomar Garciaparra, Sammy
Koufax, Thurman Munson, Curt Schilling, and of course the greatest
Mexican-American athlete of the 20th century - Ted Williams. Yup, ignorant,
racist crackers all.

You really know your baseball.