Subject: Re: NYC Summer Meeting
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 11:55:53 GMT
Allie's left-handed fielder's mitt and red hair at the golf course *are*
poetry and so is the ping-pong scene in SAI.
That post was written by someone whose gods from seven to seventeen included
Mantle, Unitas, Palmer, et al. How many tens of thousands of hours were
spent glued to the tube watching *any* sports broadcast or throwing a rubber
ball against the house in a one-man baseball game including the announcer,
hitting a plastic golf ball in the backyard ruining my father's lawn, little
league baseball games (first base and pitcher), high school golf matches
(two years varsity and Jr. Club Champion--military golf club, *not* country
club), just out there on the driveway during the last snowfall of the year
shooting baskets, the innumerable summer rounds of golf, and the baseball,
football, basketball pickup games with the guys.
That was then. For me, the sports of today ain't the sports of the '50s and
'60s (and I imagine earlier--"Where have you gone..."). The well has been
poisoned and I don't think I need to elaborate. Now, sports is up there
with this society's obsessions with making money and my God right or wrong,
and, well, I'd rather talk needlepoint or growing radishes or just about
anything else.
And, I have to say I've always rather liked a sentence from SAI:
"Maybe it's partly because I'm forty and I think it's high time all the
elderly boy writers were asked to move along from the ballparks and the bull
rings."
--Bruce
>Come on Bruce, the baseball glove with poems in catcher is at the center
>of my love for the game. But I may admit that if I read Seymour stories
>at younger age I'd be a marbles fan, but I'm afraid I've lost all them
>when it comes to the sport of summer...I love baseball because it frames
>summer for me in ways that let me watch too much TV and discuss things
>that don't have to mean anything in most real world contexts...However,
>despite being part of Salinger, I have nothing to do whatsoever with golf!
>
>will
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