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.
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