Baseball forensics: Did Vladimir Nabokov work an actual baseball headline into his novel ‘Pale Fire’?

February 19, 2011

That’s the question posed by “The Fabulous Forum: The who, what, where, when, why — and why not — of L.A. sports,” from The Los Angeles Times.

The lines in question:

A curio: Red Sox Beat Yanks 5-4

On Chapman’s Homer, thumbtacked to the door

Blogger Brian Croning goes on to opine on just what that means and if, in fact, it’s actually baseball-related.

Croning also hosts the Sports Legends Revelaed blog, which examined these baseball items.

0Shares

Comments on this entry are closed.

Previous post:

Next post:

script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-5496371-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();