{"id":10759,"date":"2014-01-17T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:06:33","slug":"box-score-an-autobiography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2014\/01\/17\/box-score-an-autobiography-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Score: An Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Introducin’ Kevine Varrone, baseball bardster over iTunes way \u00a0\u00a0five and a quarter ounces avoirdupois<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>leaving his ancestral home: Goodin, Strawberry, Casey Stengall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 amazing \u00a0a walk is as good as a hit \u00a0 \u00a0we used to say \u00a0 that’ll be a rope in the boxscore<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Pete Gray Nanticoke brief bloom back to cobblestone streets \u00a0 city of hills & stars & sky & all of it falling or held in the firmament somewhere beyond the outfield fence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Center City rises up as the light fades waiting, sea gulls, plastic bags \u00a0 the eephus turns instinct on its ear (1-3) a country life & estate Penn wrote to his wife<\/strong> <\/em>\u00a0 Sacrificing, converting, teaching, mixing, blending, bleeding \u00a0 it seems odd don’t you think that we run the bases clockwise & inconceivable to do so<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0my sister is a Red Sox fan \u00a0a glove should feel like an extension of yr hand \u00a0 my dad used to say \u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>an experimental poet, everyone reads even the kids \u00a0 Bill Lee, Mark Fidrych, Harry O’Neill \u00a0rewriting history is is pretty much what baseball is all about \u00a0 in 1964 the mets began playing at shea stadium<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0walking through the Italian Market Paul stunned it was light \u00a0 in 1945 a throw by athletics outfielder hal peck hit a pigeon flying over fenway park \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>does my sister know this, how could she \u00a0 our world is just a hanging curveball \u00a0 bill lee sd \u00a0 the eephus is a quaker pitch<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0read, listen, extras, subplots edgar alllan poe \u00a0 in most reckonings the world begins in thinking \u00a0 & action is a derivative miracle \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>Kevin Varrone made history when he spoke to Fred Rowland \u00a0 & then god said when did it become night<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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