May 12 2008

Dear Diary…

Published by admin at 10:01 am under Dear Diary

Baseball is an intimate sport. On television, during each at-bat, four times a game, the camera gets in very close to the athlete’s face and body for an extended period of time. Same with the pitcher. Thirty years after a player’s career is over, a backyard wiffle ball game will likely feature his mimicked batting stances and routines. Fans carry baseball images with them their whole life, and apparantly to the end, hoping to scatter their cremated ashes at a most familiar home plate.

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