tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32257212012-01-22T10:47:12.592-08:00Baseball writings by Douglas McDaniel<br> <br> http://mythville.blogspot.com/ Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225721.post-74406506042958295012011-01-30T04:28:00.000-08:002011-01-30T04:28:29.312-08:00

Baseball as Metaphor Meteors of metaphors, numbed into dumb endings To take the mind eye's off, off and away with muscle memory endings, peacefully, in the house built by Babe Ruth, eternal Ubermensch, where money, insurance, and time are no more than beer battered bouts ... But alas ... the spring clean cleats come around from down south when hitters aren't getting what I'm shouting about ...

Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225721.post-1108129808666679222005-02-11T05:49:00.000-08:002005-02-11T05:50:08.673-08:00

here's a lot of hand wringing. The presidential campaign war chests, especially for that of Republican nominee George W. Bush, whose campaign raised an excess of $100 million in contributions before the 2000 convention. But we should be unimpressed, perhaps even outraged, about this miniscule price tag for four years of rent in the White House. Heck, before he was rented to other teams,

Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225721.post-1105195754098746682005-02-08T06:48:00.000-08:002005-02-11T05:49:15.046-08:00

here's a lot of hand wringing. The presidential campaign war chests, especially for that of Republican nominee George W. Bush, whose campaign raised an excess of $100 million in contributions before the 2000 convention. But we should be unimpressed, perhaps even outraged, about this miniscule price tag for four years of rent in the White House. Heck, before he was rented to other teams,

Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225721.post-1093899245621219582004-08-30T13:54:00.000-07:002004-08-30T13:54:05.620-07:00

Google Search: Mythville

Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225721.post-75274122001-11-30T04:05:00.000-08:002001-11-30T04:11:13.000-08:00

Scout's Honor Baseball scout Red Murff had discovered the talent of a lifetime. If he could only get somebody to believe him. By Douglas McDaniel Mythville MetaMedia There are secrets to being a scout. He must have the awareness of a big game hunter (or, better yet, a bird watcher), the eye of an art lover, the prescience of a voodoo witch doctor. He must be a gambler, but know, when it comes

Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225721.post-75021852001-11-29T08:21:00.000-08:002001-11-29T08:25:11.000-08:00

I Take It All Back! Baseball's cultural historian sends his apologies By Douglas McDaniel Mythville MetaMedia You'd see it in italics, right before any baseball writer tried to wax poetic about the game. This oft-repeated quote by cultural historian Jacques Barzun has served as a mantra for books and magazines covering baseball for 51 years: "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of

Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.com