Re: Suicide?

Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:40:35 -0400 

On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 06:19:22PM -0400, Paul Kennedy wrote:

>  (Salinger is a Cub fan, I'm sure of it.)

Hmmmmmmmmm.  I'm not sure about that.  I'm not sure about anything when
it comes to baseball today.

> Since we're selling Salingerania here, these days...... Does anyone want to
> offer a vintage 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers baseball shirt?  

So sorry not to be able to oblige you.  I understand there's a dealer in
NJ, but he's psychotically overpriced.  Perhaps the best thing you can
do is read DeLillo's UNDERWORLD and kind of bask in the memorabilia.

I hang my head in shame for having NO Brooklyn Dodgers memorabilia.  
You'd think there's be SOMETHING around the house, but since I was the
oldest kid, and they left before I was born.  I don't even have a chunk
of Ebbets Field!

[Digression!  Yesterday, on my way to the doctor, I was a little early,
so I stopped in the sporting-goods mecca near his office, and checked
out the gloves and the bats.  One customer was wearing a Yankee jacket,
and (OB Salinger) our salesman was a clone of Horwitz, the cabbie.  He
said to the guy, half in jest, "Getta outta here wit' that jacket!"  The
guy looked puzzled, then enlightened.  "Oh, you a Mets fan!" he said.  I
cringed; I knew what was coming, somehow.

I said, "This guy's either a Giants or a Dodgers fan, but I bet a
Dodgers fan."  "You're very perceptive, my friend," he said -- and gave
me a discount on the ball I was buying.  Which, to my disappointment,
was not made in Haiti.  (I thought all baseballs were -- but those were
the Old Days.)  Paul, you would have loved his voice, his diction, and
his general attitude.

End of sports-store digression.]

> Will:  Any chance for a late-August, early-September game in NYC (I'd
> actually prefer the Bronx, since Ebbets isn't available....)?

Hey, I'd be up for at least a throw-around, since I doubt we'd gather
enough people for a full team!  I have to get me a bat, though....

> OSO--Maybe it's the Altzheimmers, but has anyone yet suggested that Burns'
> "Comin' thru the Rye" is transcribed in GREEN INK on the palm of Allie's
> baseball mit?

Ah, that's a good one; I hadn't thought of that.  But (weep) Scottie has
departed, for one reason or another.  I hope he comes back soon.

--tim