RE: the longest undefended border
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:11:27 -0500 (EST)
We have her own incontestable word for it:
I played for the
>Hazel Crest Blue Jays. Coincidence? I think not.)
>
>Regards,
>Cecilia.
>
Cecilia useta be a BlueJay!
HOORAY!
(By the way, I'm still trying to pin down the dates of my Chicago junket--so
maybe we can continue this conversation over an appropriate fluid.... And I
don't mean Jadot Beaujolais 1992!)
>ObSal: And I'd have to say that Allie wouldn't have had a "trapper" kind of
>mitt, as that's the glove reserved for beaver-coated heroines... I'd always
>envisioned it as an outfielder's glove, rarely used as its owner spent so
>much time dreaming. "Mixing memory and desire..."
>
Well, I've actually been thinking about it (in an obvious attempt to
procrastinate in the face of a truly depressing MOUNTAIN of work....): In
fact, I checked out CitR, and on Page 51 of the first edition knock-off that
BOMC put out a few years back, JDS definitely refers to "Old Allie's
baseball mitt".... Now up here in Canananada, we usually refer to fielders'
gloves as just that--GLOVES.... Catchers' gloves are usually either called
"trappers" or "mitts".... (Just now, I forget what we call that wierd
contraption worn by first basemen....) Now, I know this is NOT conclusive,
and I concede your point about dreaming outfielders (especially since you
come from Chicago--where the outfielders have been doing A LOT of dreaming
recently), but I'd still like to keep the possibility open that Allie was a
CATCHER!
(...and I'm having a GREAT time discussing baseball, SO LONG before Opening
Day! Why, it isn't even Christmas yet!)
Cheers,
Paul