Rounding the Bases: What We’re Reading
April 12, 2008
* Hobart’s Annual Baseball Web Issue. An excess of sentiment and perhaps better judgment leaves me helpless to the charms of Andrew Ervin’s “The Phillie Phanatic,” who is rather certainly related to the Snuffleupaggi of Hawai‘i. (The Phanatic, not Ervin, though one can never assume.)
* A excellent article about how the Suquamish are using their history and love of baseball as a way to strengthen cultural and community ties (via):
* A review of Peter Morris’s new history of the early organized game, But Didn’t We Have Fun?, found here.
* The philosopher John Rawls understood baseball to be in perfect geometric equilibrium, though commenters disagree. Or as Alex Beam says, “When the goalie comes out of the crease, he’s fair game. And when the philosophy professor emerges from Emerson Hall heading for Fenway, we can argue back.”
* Then again, maybe not: Heller’s “Joe” Baseball Glove Sofa.
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