05-06-2023, 07:13 PM
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Peter Spaeth
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Casey2296
It's a powerful image, Willie stretching to the height of his ability,
perfectly timed to catch a ball hit from 400 ft away and land in his tiny glove, his arm almost perfectly centered with the young woman's raised arm in triumphant victory, if you study the crowd closely the looks are mainly hesitation, caution, confusion, retreat, except her, she knew Willie had it all the way.
The industrial background of a concrete wall and a steel roll up door. The pure innocent joy on the spectators faces as they watch their hero make another inhuman catch seem routine. The beauty of no color barrier in the cheap seats in 1951, we're all just here to see the greatest ball player in the history of baseball perform his craft on a hot afternoon in New York.
Tell me this isn't the greatest sport ever...
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I have to presume you've read Don DeLillo's somewhat fictionalized account of the Shot Heard Round the World game?
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