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Author Archives: Ted
P&P Reading Club: Adam Webb on P&P Reading Club: Adam Webb on The Art of Fielding: The Final Chapters
Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. There are many criteria we can use to judge a novel: our emotional investment in the characters, the ferocity of the drama, our remembrances of the book weeks, months, years later. Somehow each … Continue reading
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Situational Essay: Zen and the Art of Scouting by Aaron Shinsano
Aaron Shinsano is a baseball scout based out of Korea, as well as the co-founder of the influential Asian baseball blog East Windup Chronicle. Before I started scouting I was a writer. So even as I started to scout I … Continue reading
P&P Conversations: Worried Series
Eric: I feel like I need to do some sort of literary knuckle-cracking. How long has it been since we’ve done this? Don’t answer that. I watched Game 2 at a quiet neighborhood bar last night with music piping through the … Continue reading
P&P Reading Club: Ted Walker on The Art of Fielding Chapters 53-72
For most of this book, Henry Skrimshander was the quiet fulcrum around which a group of vibrant characters wheeled, projecting onto his country frame their anxieties and insecurities. Henry, for his part, played the wall. Speaking little, affecting nothing, his … Continue reading
Theater in the Round: Jose Valverde, Ritual, and Performance
Yesterday morning I drove across the Mississippi River, the Velvet Underground playing on the stereo, and thought about Jose Valverde. Like Lou Reed, Jose Valverde understands performance. He understands, on some stratum beneath consciousness, that his job is to channel … Continue reading
P&P Reading Club: Adam Webb on The Art of Fielding Chapters 18 – 33
Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. These pages are packed with charm and dread. I loved the Westish Harpooners playing High School or Prison from the bus. Pella’s over-thought panic over whether or not to clean Schwartz’s dishes was … Continue reading
P&P Reading Club: Megan Wells on The Art of Fielding Chapters 18 – 33
Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. Well. Quite a bit has happened since our last check-in on this literary odyssey. Destruction and creation, mostly – relationships forming between O and Affenlight, Schwartzy and Pella. … Continue reading
P&P Reading Club: Ted Walker on The Art of Fielding Chapters 18-33
As the carefully built structure that Henry Skrimshander has committed his life to fortifying against disorder systematically caves in on itself, our anxiety-ridden shortstop seeks solace in the ritualistic circular walk around the deck of the ferry, in the prescription … Continue reading
After Something Real: Chris Farley and Batting Stances by Tom Ley
Tom Ley writes for The Good Men Project, and he contributed to 1990s First Basemen Week with The Big Cat and the Water. You can email him at leyt345(at)gmail(dot)com. When I was a kid I had two discernible skills. The first was … Continue reading
P&P Reading Club: Megan Wells on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17
Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. Despite finding the initial pacing a little strange, I’m enjoying The Art of Fielding. My biggest difficulty, though, has been finding a character to identify with. Schwartz, who … Continue reading