The next generation of baseball philosophers?

December 28, 2011

Based on The Art of Fielding‘s faux book-with-the-book conceit, Derrick Goold, who hosts the Bird Land blog on Stltoday.com, held a contest to see if his readers could add to the bits of philosophy included in TAOF, which was written by the protagonist’s hero, “a former Cardinals shortstop who reigned as the greatest glove in the game during his 18-year career. He is, as I mentioned in the above link, a philosopher shortstop, and the lessons in his book are as spiritual as they are fundamental.”

Here are the results.

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