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Giants Stand Tall, Defy Ezra Pound
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Oh, Captain! Is Jeter’s Fearful Trip Done?
Seeing “the Captain” Derek Jeter break his ankle conjures up Whitman’s “captain” poem.
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Thinking beyond the Baseball Box
The film “Moneyball” helps explain this year’s extraordinary story of the Oakland Athletics.
Midsummer Madness–Orioles Chasing First
In this topsy-turrvy baseball season, as in Midsummer Night’s Dream, all things are possible and the Baltimore Orioles are a game out of first.
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Stephen Strasburg as a Balzac Parable
The strange case of Stephen Strasburg–missing the playoffs if he exceeds his innings pitched limit–has parallels with the Balzac novel “The Magic Skin.”
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Cardinals’ Victory Invokes Mythos of Spring
St. Louis’s improbable World Series victory corresponds to the mythos of comedy as described by Northrup Frye. Comedy’s improbably reversals symbolize the escape of life from the clutches of winter.
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Novels and Baseball Fans, Fixated on Time
As I watched the amazing day of baseball last Wednesday, I found myself thinking (being the literature nerd that I am) that the English novel was invented to do justice to reality when it got this dramatic and complex.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, Robinson Crusoe, Sports, Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy Comments closed
The Poetics of Base Stealing
Robert Francis’s poem “The Base Stealer” helps us appreciate the exquisite tensions between the base runner and the pitcher.
A Poetic Game of Throw and Catch
In his poem, Robert Francis compares the interaction between poet and reader to two boys playing throw and catch.
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