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This is a linear sport. Something happens and then
something else happens, and then the next man
comes up and digs in at the plate. Here's the
pitch, and here, after a pause, is the next.
There's time to write it down in your scorecard or
notebook, and then perhaps to look about and
reflect on what's starting to happen out there
now. It's not much like the swirl and blur of
hockey and basketball, or the highway crashes of
the NFL.
Baseball is the writer's game, and its train of
thought, we come to sense, is a shuttle, carrying
us constantly forward to the next pitch or inning,
or the sudden double into the left-field corner,
but we keep hold of the other half of our ticket,
for the return trip on the same line. We
anticipate happily, and, coming home, reenter an
old landscape brightened with fresh colors.
Baseball games and plays and mannerisms-the angle
of a cap-fade stubbornly and come to mind
unbidden, putting us back in some particular park
on that special October afternoon or June evening.
The players are as young as ever, and we, perhaps
not entirely old.
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