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How Baseball Passes Time by Dan McNeill danfm@worldnet.att.net Website: The Theater of the Impossible Baseball is athletic drama that expresses by individual actions within a beautifully pre-ordered ritual framework the fundamental struggles of American man for his integrity in a hostile environment. The lonely pilgrimage of a batter who transforms himself into a runner to play the deadly game of survival on the three bases in order to return home is wordless theater that represents the conflicts of life in America that are beyond time. The beautiful, ingenious complexity of baseball's design passes time. Time in real life is everywhere. It has no reality, but it commands everyone. There are clocks all over, staring at us, demanding our awareness. Time governs every American life and it governs every American sport except baseball. Every other sport is a struggle against time. Athletes run or swim against each other and against a clock. Boxers can fight for only thirty minutes or forty-five minutes. Time dictates that football or basketball players play for exactly one hour or exactly forty-eight minutes: near the end, if they're losing, they try to create more time by calling time-outs; if they're winning, they run out the clock. The football or basketball fan's awareness of time is constantly enhanced and intensified. The fan never asks what time it is at a ball game. He asks what inning it is or how many outs there are. Time is a crucial presence that becomes continually more oppressive as the game progresses. Baseball passes time. The national pastime is played independently of time. It has its own time sequence, the endless tick of one, two, three outs, composing the perpetual flow of the innings, which makes it timeless. The fan never asks what time it is at a ball game. He asks what inning it is or how many outs there are. Time, like justice and money, is for the mortals. For baseball players and fans it doesn't exist. Things happen not at three-thirty but in the top of the fourth or the last of the ninth. The innings are as timeless as the seasons of the year. They're self-contained moments of an eternal sequence of time that they themselves create and define. They refer to nothing at all except themselves. And the innings -- each a unique entity, a unique happening despite their predetermined form -- succeed each other day after day, season after season, forever. For the baseball fan there is no time and only two seasons, the season of winter and the baseball season. 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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