please delete, thx

[dbussell12]

please delete, thx

[oldjudge]

Huh?

[ALBB]

I find it fascinating. .simply fascinating

[NiceDocter]

The antithesis of antidisestablishmentarianism . Must be rated supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!

[dbussell12]

Originally Posted by ALBB

I find it fascinating. .simply fascinating

That's wonderful Albert! I'm really glad that you enjoy this and that this is resonating with you. I will continue to add more links to this thread as the orations continue to build themselves out. I hope to do a service to the history of baseball and those who participated and their inner histories and the humanity of the sport. So many aspects that are not often discussed or seen beneath the statistics or what is going on on the field. Although those things are important -- there is so much real meaning to be explored here. About what baseball means and has meant to America and the world as a way to experience life in a powerfully present, grounded, transcendent spiritual way. How people in our communities played out our hopes, dreams, and aspirations on the stage of baseball. It's very very powerful and profound. It's a human heritage of baseball that extends across the history of the sport and our communities and many lives that have been lived. It deserves to be treated with respect, dignity, and honor befitting of that truth.

[jingram058]

Well, you put an awful lot of thought and work into this. I like stuff like this. You have to open your mind, and put your thinking cap on, in order to keep up.

[dbussell12]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Well, you put an awful lot of thought and work into this. I like stuff like this. You have to open your mind, and put your thinking cap on, in order to keep up.

Hey Jim -- I really appreciate that. I hope its clear that none of this is out of an attempt to be opaque or to be obtuse but to really deeply honor and give full attention to the meaning of baseball, and to put this down to honor our players, our game, and our communities. Baseball brought our country (as well as places like Cuba) through incredibly difficult, intense, and harsh domestic and global circumstances. Players like Lefty Grove became legends from the coal mines; from nothing but throwing rocks and honing their skills in these small early mining towns. They stood for communities that had to band together to survive these brutal and thankless conditions.

That's the legacy to honor and to acknowledge. And yes -- I think in that sense it requires our presence and opening our minds. To understand their world and how it relates to ours; to understand just how important baseball really is and was. And what it gave and gives people at the deepest level. Not much of that is very apparent to the naked eye all the time, so it requires that added level of work and vision to perceive a great deal of that power. Because its still there -- in the cards, in the old architecture of the mining and factory towns; in the legacies of players like Grove, Walsh, and Mantle. It was never just about their stats or the fact that they were stars and legends of the game -- it was and is about their whole humanity. Where they came from, the trials they faced, and how they rose through it and became examples of what is possible for those who had nothing and dealt with the harshest conditions of their times.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Huh?

It sounds like it's an essential prelude and philosophical springboard into extended discourse woven into the whole as a larger overview of the heart of the matter.

[dbussell12]

The Aesthetics of Austerity - 1939 Play Ball & The Energetics of American Transformation:

https://davidbussellarchive.substack...austerity-1939

[oldjudge]

One very wise man once said that “If you can’t explain it simply you don’t understand it well enough”. I think Albert made a good point.

[dbussell12]

please delete, thx

[Leon]

David made a list of things he wanted me to do as he doesn't want to be here anymore. Instead of all of those things he wanted, he has been shown the door. This place isn't for everyone. I wish him the very best, someplace else. Happy collecting!

Oh, and a card, because every thread should have one.
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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

The antithesis of antidisestablishmentarianism . Must be rated supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!

A clear example of floccinaucinihilipilification

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

A clear example of floccinaucinihilipilification

At last, a clear explanation.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Leon

David made a list of things he wanted me to do as he doesn't want to be here anymore. Instead of all of those things he wanted, he has been shown the door. This place isn't for everyone. I wish him the very best, someplace else. Happy collecting!

Oh, and a card, because every thread should have one.
.

Well, I guess as Ken "Hawk" Harrelson used to say when broadcasting White Sox games..."he gone".

[4815162342]

RIP dbussell12GPT.

[calvindog]

He started like 200 threads. What happened?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by calvindog

He started like 200 threads. What happened?

Post 12.
He had pm'd me, said N54 was 100% not for him, and he deleted some of his posts

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[calvindog]

He couldn’t just …..stop posting? 🤣

[Leon]

Originally Posted by calvindog

He couldn’t just …..stop posting? 🤣

He said he wanted his account deleted and then several other things. One click was much easier.
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[molenick]

I feel like he was looking for a deeper discussion about the meaning of baseball and baseball cards, which is fine, but not really what goes on here most of time.