Parker’s Wake
A continuation of Wednesday’s “Field of Dreams” link —
Internet Movie Database comment —
“The Kid From Left Field” is a wonderful baseball film made in the early fifties and breathes the nostalgia of that time period. Child actor Billy Chapin becomes a batboy for the woeful Bisons (a copy of the old St. Louis Browns) and proceeds to inform the players of how they can correct their individual problems. Unbeknownst to the team, Chapin’s wisdom is from his father, a washed-up player who has become a peanut vendor and lacks confidence and courage– in spite of his obvious baseball knowledge. Pretty soon, Chapin becomes the nine year old manager of the team with dramatic results that bind father to son; you can’t help but root for the Bisons! A baseball fantasy– but filled with much innocence and charm.
“…dramatic results that bind father to son….”
Not to mention the Holy Ghost. See Fess Parker, who died Thursday, in the “Left Field” film and in an essay by Roger Cooke in the April Notices of the American Mathematical Society—
Life on the Mathematical Frontier: Legendary Figures and Their Adventures
Fess Parker in
“The Kid from Left Field,” 1953
Possible associative links between recent Log24 posts and the baseball theme of the April AMS Notices—
- The film “Field of Dreams” mentioned above is a resurrection story.
- Wednesday’s link to simultaneous multiple-level associations leads to the Gameplayers of Zan cover that also appears in Thursday’s post. That cover deals with a resurrection myth in Gameplayers.
- The Finnegans Wake resurrection myth is mentioned in Wednesday’s post “Spring Training.”
Associative links, though entertaining, have of course their limitations in logical argument.
A notable recent example– Jon Stewart’s parody of Glenn Beck.