Beat writer Jack Kerouac was a HUGE baseball fan and even created his own baseball game that he would play throughout his life. He made up entire leagues, teams and players and not only played out whole seasons with a championship but even wrote game summeries and put them in his own newspaper! The New York Public Library had a display a few years ago about it and I drew up this card showing him as manager of the Pittsburgh Plymouths.
If you're interested in the story I wrote about it, it's here:
http://www.infinitecardset.blogspot....rch/label/Jack Kerouac