Pynchon and baseball

[David Casseres]

When my daughter was about four, we were walking in the park when we heard a
lot of yelling and screaming, which turned out to come from a softball
game.  She had never seen one, so we watched for a while and I tried to
explain the game a bit.

We saw a player strike out, and I explained what that meant.  My daughter
thought about it for a bit, and said, "Sometimes I get left out too."

On 4/19/07, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > 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
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
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