Boys of Summer
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
The boys at the Henry Wiggen’s blog are back and posting more frequently now. One of the bloggers is my former journalism professor, John Lofflin. Something he added to the site earlier in the week caught my attention. In an excellent post, he asked why so many talented writers turn to baseball as the basis for their literary endeavors. My response (re-published here) was that I loved playing baseball as a kid and that the answer might be as simple as Hemingway, Malamud, Shaahara, and others did, too. I think that response was pretty obvious, but it gave me a reason to reel off a few hundred words. (more…)
