— Edgar Lee Masters, ”56. Homer Clapp,” Spoon River Anthology
1925-1949, poster by Evert Möllenkamp.
via Vintage Safety - 50 Watts: ‘Fifty years of workplace safety posters courtesy of Geheugenvannederland.nl (Memory of the Netherlands)’
— John Berger
“Long Live New Wave Punk Rock!”
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Warren was not a looker.
“Bang the Drum Slowly” is the ultimate baseball movie — and, despite what a plot summary might suggest, I think it’s more about baseball than death. It takes place during the last season on this Earth of one Bruce Pearson, an earnest but dumb catcher from Georgia who learns, in the movie’s first scene, that he is suffering from an incurable disease. The movie is about that season and about his friendship with Henry Wiggen, a pitcher, who undertakes to see that Bruce at least lives his last months with some dignity, some joy, and a few good games.
On the surface, then, the movie seems a little like “Brian’s Song”. But it’s not: It’s mostly about baseball and the daily life of a major league club on the road. The fact of Bruce’s approaching death adds a poignancy to the season, but “Bang the Drum Slowly” doesn’t brood about death and it isn’t morbid. In its mixture of fatalism, roughness, tenderness, and bleak humor, indeed, it seems to know more about the ways we handle death than a movie like “Love Story” ever guessed.- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (August 26, 1973)
Read the rest: “Review: Bang the Drum Slowly”
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Related: “Roger Ebert at the Baseball Movies” by Larry Granillo (Baseball Prospectus)
The back of the card
- @jonbois
- @jonbois
Now, I will write a short poem in the voice of my 8 year old self:
Ode to Super Jock
My Super Jock is red
And when I smack his little head
He kicks the ball for miles and miles
From the living room onto the kitchen tiles
Super Jock
Su
Per
Jock
THE END
— Nick Markakis (via mightyflynn)
Long live Markakis!
via @BananaKarenina
photos by John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star
“…take away seven horrific starts, and [Hochevar] posted a 3.65 ERA…”
/scales the Liberty Memorial
//jumps
Sometimes, one must stare defeat in the face in order to blaze a path to victory.
Janet Leigh
Babe Ruth & Will Rogers Entertain The Kids
Children’s Hospital - Boston, MA - April 24, 1929
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