Beyond a Game by Jewel W. on Baseball Almanac

Beyond a Game by Jewel W.

Jewel W. wants to share, in a personal & insightful prose, with Baseball Almanac readers a little something that she see's Beyond a Game. What might that be? Read & you will understand...

"In fact, the real beauty of baseball is that, if you know the game, it is like the placid duck paddling furiously under water — all sorts of things are happening or may be happening or could possibly happen soon, you think. Then, when something doeshappen it is that much more delicious. That, as much as the periodic action, is what makes baseball such a marvelous sport." - Frank Deford in Sports Illustrated (October 2000)

Published: Baseball Almanac (11-2003)

it is a white ball against

a sky so blue it hurts your eyes

it is thick grass, so perfectly green

day fading into evening

as cheers fade to silence

soft moonlight on an empty park

full of promise with morning light

crack of a bat, the graceful arc

flies over the wall

little white thing, focus of all eyes.

it is breathing hard in soft evening air

running the perfect white line

to reach a base

unending promise, untapped possibility

beyond baseball, beyond a game

it is beauty.

Beyond a Game by Jewel W. (2003) ©

What part of the game do you consider most beautiful? The pastoral fields? The grace seen during a perfectly executed double play? Tell us on Baseball Fever.

Did you know that there have been two former Major League ballplayers with the nickname of Beauty? Here are those uniquely named players:

Dave "Beauty" Bancroft	1915 - 1930
Frank "Beauty" McGowan	1922 - 1937

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