Wonderful piece! Willie’s passing hitting many of us so hard! I really enjoyed - amidst some mistiness - hearing about Willie’s last game, not to mention Felix, Bud and Rusty… I wonder if you remember a regular season catch Willie made that year when he tapped the ball back up into the air, and without breaking his stride, let it drop into the open basket on his way to the dugout? It just made you feel good to watch that man play baseball! Thank you for this awesome piece!
I was hoping you would weigh in on his passing. Yes, I’m a dodger fan - and I join with everyone in honoring him. He was larger than life, and he remains so now. Everything that needs to be said about him will be and that suits me. But each of us had our own experience with Mays in our imagination. The real greats inspire that in the rest of us.
Thanks very much for reading the piece. I invite you to go back and re-read it, since watching the old clips on YouTube made me think that something was off. And it turns out, there was. This is the sort of thing that makes writing even more fun than it usually is for me.
Wonderful piece! Willie’s passing hitting many of us so hard! I really enjoyed - amidst some mistiness - hearing about Willie’s last game, not to mention Felix, Bud and Rusty… I wonder if you remember a regular season catch Willie made that year when he tapped the ball back up into the air, and without breaking his stride, let it drop into the open basket on his way to the dugout? It just made you feel good to watch that man play baseball! Thank you for this awesome piece!
Thanks for reading it. I appreciate the kind words, too.
I was hoping you would weigh in on his passing. Yes, I’m a dodger fan - and I join with everyone in honoring him. He was larger than life, and he remains so now. Everything that needs to be said about him will be and that suits me. But each of us had our own experience with Mays in our imagination. The real greats inspire that in the rest of us.
Thanks very much for reading the piece. I invite you to go back and re-read it, since watching the old clips on YouTube made me think that something was off. And it turns out, there was. This is the sort of thing that makes writing even more fun than it usually is for me.
Fair. The card, and our memories, are off. The need to venerate and its decomplicating process is rarely accurate. But it is often preferred.