Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, stealing home plate in a swirl of dust, his eye and hand coordination groomed at UCLA men’s gym, playing ping pong…Stan Musial of the Cardinals of St. Louis chasing fly balls in right field and batting over three fifty, playing his harmonica at home later...
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“Where to tonight at Wrigley Field in Chicago? the New York Met fans and former Ebbets Field knothole bleacher “rats”, sitting on the edge of their vicarious seats, caught up the “Over the rainbow” syndrome..
Theo Epstein, the Grand Vicar and architect of the Cubbies hundred year incarnation into Wrigley’s gum chewing stadium.
Where else on the planet’s playgrounds and schoolyards could a dreamer take off from their mother’ s womb into the unknownmetamorphosis and divine intervention.
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But to follow a “a swirl of dust” and a “harmonica”? into the unknown?
Unbelievable?
“Right? Right! “
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A chewing gum dynasty into a bat and ball metaphor. Not a “Dr. Jekyll and Mister. Hyde” masked personality.
Anna Freud’s empathetic approach (Dr. Freud’s daughter, fromher London digs: tormented mothers adrift with their gurglingcrying infants)
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Is it any indisputable irony of ironies that when these dreamers take the field at Wrigley tonight, their collective unconscious “Over the rainbow” is watched and overheard by millions and millions of fans.…
”PLAY BALL”
October 20, 2015 The City that never sleeps..
