Road Trip

November 9, 2007

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road celebrated its 50th anniversary in September, an event feted by re-releases of the watershed oeuvre and other events.

According to Bloomberg.com:

The New York Public Library offers an exhibition of Kerouaciana that includes about 60 feet of the scroll unrolled in a long display case, numerous notebooks, a fantasy baseball game he invented (emphasis added) and the crutches he used after a football injury at Columbia University.

Hunter S. Thompson was another pop culture writer you wouldn’t expect to be concerned about such trivial matters as baseball, but here’s his widow, Anita, reading a piece he wrote about the game

 

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