[Kawika]

I think there's a profound thread here, how tangible materials are portals back in time to places we can reach in our minds; spaces we inhabit with mixtures of personal, ancestral, and collective memories. Much of this recall in my experience is a fusion between storytelling, myth, and how history is passed down and shifts and changes through time aurally and in how we process time through time.)

The future, these days coming on like a tidal wave, unnerves me. The older I get the more I reach into the past. You are much more articulate and analytical about the anthropological matters of collective memories, story telling, myth-making and the like. I couldn't have written what you wrote but I appreciate your insights.

David - have you ever thought about putting any of this to paper in essay or book form?

Never had any aspirations to be a writer. There are certain things I would like to get down on paper for the benefit of my nieces and nephews related to our family's story, and I want to write up some biographical info about my wife who has lived a tough, interesting and honorable life. She has fifty-one - count 'em - first cousins and someday there will be a gazillion young Vander Kooys whom I want to remember her.

From what little I have seen and heard from David so far on the forum I remain convinced he could write the baseball book to define all baseball books... I would love to see what would or could come of it. Such lyrical and poetic writing there and the references are just fantastic!)

Have been posting on this board for over twenty years. Most of what I have written is more terse and less whimsical than the post we're discussing. I get a kick out of the English language. You can paint with words and express things in all sorts of ways. It pleases me to come up with a well-turned phrase. The next step is a paragraph and beyond that are pages, articles, books. Anything beyond a paragraph takes disciplined and dedicated effort. I'm too hyper for that. I wish to un-convince you of the possibility of me writing the ultimate baseball book. Wouldn't even know where to start. All the same, thanks for the complimentary words.

Could have mistaken the Seals manager in that picture you shared for T.S. Eliot...

When i acquired the glass slide about fifteen years back I attempted to ID each of the players. Probably named two-thirds of them and put the project aside and there it has sat. I thought the man in the sweater was manager Nick Williams but was corrected by Dave Eskenazi that TS Eliot was the trainer and Williams is to his right.