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All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.
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Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
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It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.
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Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.
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An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.
