I don't know if there are any Don DeLillo fans on SN. Count me as one. I know there are baseball fans here. I will never forget the first time I read this. The chapter was printed in The New Yorker before the novel was published.
This is a magical baseball moment brilliantly captured by a great writer.
105 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 18 May
That's surely a great read. I'm learning a little baseball and because I'm trying to make Cricket popular there, I must learn about baseball as gesture of gratitude.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 18 May
Baseball meets Cricket.
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104 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 18 May
Great read. I love me some DeLillo, and love how the '60s - '80s gave us all these literary giants -- DeLillo, Pynchon, Oates, Auster, Rushdie -- who all seem to embrace some form of "low" pop culture (sports, movies, etc).
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 18 May
Hadn't read this before. Incredible way to capture one of the most icon moments in baseball history.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 18 May
Have you read ball four?
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