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A Baseball Pilgrim Off To New York by Dan McNeill danfm@worldnet.att.net Website: The Theater of the Impossible Interview with the Author: A Baseball Reader's Journal by Tom Swift (Baseball-Almanac.com) An October afternoon in 1963 a black man got in my taxi. "I got tickets to the World Series," he said excitedly. "Stay with me now, I got money. I'm goin' to New York. I gotta get my things." That area of Boston never had enough cabs on Friday afternoons for people who were too poor to run cars and had just got a week's pay. We drove left a few blocks on Massachusetts Avenue and right on Washington Street to the pawn shop. The man hung over the front seat to my right all the way. "You stay with me now. You with me? I'm goin' to the World Series. Don't worry. I got money. I'm goin' to New York." "This is the greatest day of my life," he said. I waited with the meter running at the curb under the elevated railway near the pawn shop. He came out finally with clothes on hangers over his shoulder. He opened the door and arranged the clothes to rest folded over the top of the front seat. Then he hurried off down the sidewalk to the liquor store and came back carrying his bottle in a brown bag. He had a belt and offered me one. I refused smiling. We were off again back up to where we started on Columbus Avenue and then left into a short, dead-end street. He hung over the front seat all the way. "This is the greatest day of my life," he said. "I'm goin' to the World Series." He went in a red-brick building and came out after a long wait well-dressed. We were off again to the bus station, to New York, baseball, the World Series, to the universe. I stopped in front of the bus station. He paid me well. And then he was gone. It was certainly that day that for the first time I realized how deeply baseball touches the soul. A man got his clothes out of hock, bought a bottle, dressed and took a bus to New York as happy as a medieval pilgrim on a journey to a holy place. Baseball touches the soul. Our soul. The American soul. From "The Theater of the Impossible" by Daniel F. McNeill. Read a description of the book and a free excerpt at the publisher: http://www.xlibris.com/thetheateroftheimpossible The Pinstripe Press: https://www.angelfire.com/ny5/pinstripepress The Highlander: https://www.angelfire.com/ny5/thehighlander Editor's Email: StlrsFan1@aol.com Copyright © 2002-2003 Pinstripe Press. All Rights Reserved. This online newsletter is not affiliated with the New York Yankees. The opinions expressed solely represent the contributor's and not the Pinstripe Press.

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