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1There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America,
2where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball.
3『Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away
4while very little of anything happens.』① They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet,
5gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies
6“the hit”.By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.
7On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, closeups. The geometry of the game, however, is
8essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of
9course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for
10involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.
11Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His
12legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other
13sports so still, so passive. 『But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his
14toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward,
15perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position.』② Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing
16happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”
17The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than
18listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your
19glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of
20movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.
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