Summer in Baltimore is here, and the mercury tells no lies. The young men involved in Clean and Green are hard at work, as are we, engulfed with Anthropology by the Wire. As most of us know, when you work hard, it's necessary to get your mind off chiseling the tablet, and unwind a little. After spending some time with the C&G team on Monday, we followed up on a request to play a pick up game of baseball, a great opportunity to unwind, right? Moses, Crystal, Claire, Raul and I meet up with Darious and Edward, following them over to the diamond in Solo Gibb park, tucked away in a section of Sharp-Leadenhall. From the field, looking east, cars fill a large parking lot located underneath I-395. The light rail can be seen gliding along both north, and south from the Hamburg station. M&T Bank Stadium provides a moutainesque backdrop of concrete, steel, and purple accents. The scene has me captivated in a sense of wonder. The highway above acts as immense beams cutting across the sky. A massive billboard steals ocular depth to the south. I feel so small in the midst of structures that seem to constrict and wrap around us. In the midst of this space, the sun beats down relentlessly with clouds few and far between as the aging afternoon hours progress. Darious and Eddy break out their gear and we started warming up, both in temperature and, you know, tossing the ball around and taking some practice cuts with the bat. In the distance Stefon makes his way to join us. His brother Devin joined in a little later on as well. We split up into teams and started playing. Let me just say something, those guys in C&G, can crush a baseball! A chain link fence lined the back of the outfield which got throughly acquainted with the ball soaring over it. Come to find out, most of the guys have played on teams and it was no surprise. The whole game was lighthearted and produced some beneficial interactions between all of us. A sense of comfortability settled in as we played America's great pastime. Laughter for the most part can be useful when gauging the overall mood of a group, and there was a lot of that going on. It was interesting to see some passerby’s heading to the Oriole's game somewhat fixated on what we were up to. Although the game was nothing new to the black and orange fans, they still felt compelled to observe us as they walked along. Thinking back, I feel when positivity is in the air, people can't help but catch a whiff, and hopefully it leaves an impression which pollinates the hearts of others.
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