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I haven't read The Art of Fielding yet, but this passage makes me want to:
To field a ground ball must be considered a generous act and an act of comprehension. One moves not against the ball but with it. Bad fielders stab at the ball like an enemy. This is antagonism. The true fielder lets the path of the ball become his own path, thereby comprehending the ball and dissipating the self, which is the source of of all suffering and poor defense.
Gosh.
(Here's a short essay about the novel.)
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Wow, "mulatto"?
The Jon Michaud piece in the New Yorker refers to one of the characters as “mulatto.” I don’t think I’ve heard that word (or read it) in more than 10 years.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
@productiveouts | Productive Outs
by delorean on Sep 20, 2011 7:33 PM EDT reply actions
http://www.slate.com/id/2103845/
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 21, 2011 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Mullato?
That sounds like sumthing they serve in Starbucks
by Brendl on Sep 21, 2011 4:57 AM EDT up reply actions
Here' s another quote from the novel
By a major league scout:
I played in the minors for nine years, batted twice in the majors. And I’ll tell you something — pretty much every guy I ever shared a locker room with wound up becoming either an alcoholic or a born-again Christian. Booze or God. That’s what this game does to you.
I like this novel very much.
by Andrew Milner on Sep 20, 2011 7:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Finished it this weekend
There’s less baseball than you might hope. I’d say it was:
35% baseball
20% homosexual romance
15% semi-pretentious academia
15% liberal arts college life (including hetero romance)
10% Melville
5% other
The baseball stuff (and Melville stuff oddly) grabbed me and I found myself trying to race through some of the other parts to return to the season. The C, Schwartz, was my favorite character and ultimately I found the SS, Henry Skrimshander, to be frustratingly closed off. Intentionally, I guess, since he’s incapable of the self-analysis needed to overcome his particular conflict, but that makes for a bit of a blank character. It reminded me most of Chabon’s Wonder Boys… but with baseball instead of fiction writing.
by longsinmn on Sep 20, 2011 10:01 PM EDT reply actions
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