Pynchon and baseball

[Glenn Scheper]

> a sport also well-spidered with white suggestions of the sinister.

A 98-pound weakling, PE, Physical Education was the only class I hated.
I eventually saw the social value of football: Develop strong warriors.
Laying in the part reading AtD, near the baseball diamond, I overhear
a whole different thing. As one of my bosses said, "Baseball IS life."

If football makes warriors, baseball makes officers. Here, grown men
were diligently mentoring pliant youth into a cohesive team-viewpoint,
imbuing obediance to non-intuitive structured forms: "Always throw to
first", "Step into the ball", "Always run over the base", "Always...",
while patiently nurturing the least boy, the weakest link, and while
ignoring, thus extinguishing youth-on-youth ad-hominem deprecations.
Creating the impenetrable elite cadre. Doublethink comes to my mind.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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