Faithful (2004)
“I can’t say precisely. Part of it was my feeling that football was an island of directness in a world of circumspection. In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out. There was nothing rhetorical or vague about it; I chose to believe that it was not unlike the jobs which all men, in some sunnier past, had been called upon to do. It smacked of something old, something traditional, something unclouded by legerdemain and subterfuge. It had that kind... of power over me, drawing me back with the force of something known, scarcely remembered, elusive as integrity—perhaps it was no more than the force of a forgotten childhood. Whatever it was, I gave myself up to the Giants utterly. The recompense I gained was the feeling of being alive.”
Frederick Exley, A Fan’s Notes Now, if you substitute baseball for football and Red Sox for Giants, you have a very fair picture of my rooting geography.Francona must be feeling the heat, because Ortiz is DHing and McCarty starts at first.MoreLess
Frederick Exley, A Fan’s Notes Now, if you substitute baseball for football and Red Sox for Giants, you have a very fair picture of my rooting geography.Francona must be feeling the heat, because Ortiz is DHing and McCarty starts at first.MoreLess
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