Comments on: Kerouac’s Fantasy Baseball Obsession

By: Dave H

Dave H — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:28:00 +0000

Our mutual friend Clifford told me he rode in the Back seat to Mass. from St. Pete with a case of wine and never got out of the car, drinker, well maybe a little. I first met him while drinking a beer in solitude at a USF hangout when peanuts started landing all around my mug. That was normal, in the setting of the day.
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By: Jonny

Jonny — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:22:00 +0000

correct me if I’m wrong, but is the CF for the Phil. Pontiacs named “El Negro”? I know times were different then but man….

By: airship

airship — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Now I want fan t-shirts for the Boston Fords, New York Chevvies, and Philadelphia Pontiacs.

By: BassMan

BassMan — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:45:00 +0000

There are some selctions of his sports writing in the Collection “Atop An Underwood.”

By: Shandi

Shandi — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:58:00 +0000

Wow! I didn’t know this about him…interesting. I always thought it was cool that I shared a birthday with him though…

By: robert

robert — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:47:00 +0000

He wrote in PAINSTAKING detail of these games in Desolation Angel. Describing entire games in a play by play fashion that he was making up in his head. I’ve read these pages many times and have oft considered them to be some of the most incredible pieces of beat literature ever written. This would explain how much work went into those seemingly forgotten pages. Amazing.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:48:00 +0000

sounds oddly similar to Robert Coover’s “The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.”