Socked in during Covid lockdown, I became increasingly obsessed with archival footage of “actual human life,” so I scoured the internet for any videos I could find of Pedro Martinez, my favorite baseball player, in action. Contemporary viewers can see what I would argue is not merely a baseball game but a novel, an opera, a lyric masterpiece. Fastball, curveball, changeup. Normal sentence, long sentence, short sentence. Straight declarative sentence, periodic sentence, sentence fragment.

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Persons: Pedro Martinez, I’d, Virginia Woolf, Dalloway, ”, ” I’m, Martinez, —, Chuck Knoblauch’s, ” Woolf, Lucy, Chili Davis, Gerald Williams Organizations: Boston Red Sox, Yankees, Yankee, Tampa Bay Devil Rays Locations: New York, Tampa