Comments on: A Favorite Quote: Taking the Long View http://ethanprater.com/a-favorite-quote-taking-the-long-view/ Man fruit braise the north almond. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:11:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aaron http://ethanprater.com/a-favorite-quote-taking-the-long-view/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Aaron Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:51:00 +0000 http://ethanprater.com/?p=786#comment-139 I have to agree and for whatever reason (maybe the swanee river like pace?), baseball has more than its fair share of good writing. My personal favorite is a melancholy one, coming from your famous Yale alum, Bart Giamatti... "The Green Fields of the Mind " It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone. I have to agree and for whatever reason (maybe the swanee river like pace?), baseball has more than its fair share of good writing. My personal favorite is a melancholy one, coming from your famous Yale alum, Bart Giamatti…

“The Green Fields of the Mind ”
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.

]]> By: El Jefe http://ethanprater.com/a-favorite-quote-taking-the-long-view/comment-page-1/#comment-136 El Jefe Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:37:35 +0000 http://ethanprater.com/?p=786#comment-136 Even though Costner cheesed this one out of the park in the movie adaptation, I've heard similar feedback about Michael Shaara's "For Love of the Game". I've not read this myself (on my very long list - but not being available on Kindle keeps it further down the list) - but his "Killer Angels" sits comfortably in my top 25 of all time. -js Even though Costner cheesed this one out of the park in the movie adaptation, I’ve heard similar feedback about Michael Shaara’s “For Love of the Game”.

I’ve not read this myself (on my very long list – but not being available on Kindle keeps it further down the list) – but his “Killer Angels” sits comfortably in my top 25 of all time.

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