[katherinewirick]

LITTLE THINGS

The 2006 interview can be heard here.

Additional research from Jane Leavy’s Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy (HarperCollins, 2002).

[reparrishcomics]

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[starrynet]

words to live by

[kyuka-bse]

[telephonicsonnyboy]

[blond-shell]

[nevver]

“He is always on the brink of suicide … because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.” — Umberto Eco on Charlie Brown

[tmobilepark]

this is like. moving me to tears

[bannertanks]

you know you're down bad when you're watching triple a rehab starts

[userpironi]

Unlike most, a ball player must confront two deaths. First, between the ages of thirty and forty, he perishes as an athlete. Although he looks trim and feels vigorous and retains unusual coordination, the superlative reflexes, the major league reflexes, pass on. At a point when many of his classmates are newly confident and rising in other fields, he finds that he can no longer hit a very good fast ball or reach a grounder four strides to his right. At thirty-five, he is experiencing the truth of finality. As his major league career is ending, all things will end. However he sprang, he was always earthbound. Mortality embraces him. The golden age has passed as in a moment. So will all things. So will all moments. Memento mori.

— Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer

[thestxrs]

missing: wrigley field

[notkatniss]

me when I’m trying to find something normal to say about the guy I hate

[bannertanks]

free poster at the game yesterday :)

[televisionenjoyer]

Sports broadcasts should have an RPF expert. Just so that we know the full implications of what's happening onscreen.

[phillyphangirl]

[idrawsnoopyeveryday]

3.

[majorleagueupdates]

BREAKING: inside sources have revealed that things are gonna get psychosexual after the All-Star Break. So keep an eye on that.