tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post6820246291113639540..comments2024-03-07T04:13:36.330-06:00Comments on The Storyteller's Inkpot: Root, Root, Root for Narrative BeautyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-72414267091380399752009-10-08T12:18:37.554-05:002009-10-08T12:18:37.554-05:00Beautiful indeed. I love a story with an unlikely ...Beautiful indeed. I love a story with an unlikely hero, but a whole game full of them? Unreal. <br /><br />(Another digression... baseball is also poetry? In our office the day, two of our resident poets admitted to spontaneous, game-induced poem writing. Lovely.)christine rousuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05505283225509739515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-70113360364185877292009-10-08T09:02:02.056-05:002009-10-08T09:02:02.056-05:00Ohhhh! So that's what my husband meant by, &qu...Ohhhh! So that's what my husband meant by, "Looks like it was a good game to watch." ;-) You liken baseball to good fiction. To point out the obvious, it is in fact excellent nonfiction. Sports writing (as in your blog entry) builds poetic, meaningful, symmetrical narrative from actual events, the facts of which can't be changed. Sports writing offers great examples of how drama and symbolic meaning are embedded in real-life stories.Cheryl Bardoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00084503940091474111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-39364527906384368072009-10-07T16:50:01.803-05:002009-10-07T16:50:01.803-05:00Anne, you interpreted the game wonderfully! Maybe ...Anne, you interpreted the game wonderfully! Maybe that's what I love so much about baseball -- it's like a damn good book, the kind you want to experience again and again. Thanks for sharing, Anne. And, as this blog entry is labeled under "Digressions," I will digress: GO TWINS!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06221500266860871235noreply@blogger.com