Benzedrine, travel, novels, prosody bop? Not only that. C 'Kerouac was also a sportsman, avid sports, where even his closest friends, his comrades and poetry, they knew little or nothing, for years, perhaps with the secret hope of not getting old, or perhaps to combat loneliness, Jack Kerouac cultivated a hobby that kept him busy for hours each day, which began at his home in Lowell, on the table in front of the window overlooking the backyard, lost between the pencils and pastels. On that wooden table Kerouac began to play baseball in a league invented out of whole cloth, of his own, without moving a muscle. Fantasy Football Today, in the 50's in Lowell Fantabaseball. Also on that table, once filled the pages of the results of each day, with comments, match commentary, reviews of the press, with the roses of the teams, injuries, field conditions, the bad reputation of the arbitrators, targeted even then, they could appreciate the exploits of fictional star of first magnitude as Wino Love, Warby Pepper, Heinie Twiett, Phegus Cody, Zagg Parker, idols of teams with names inspired by the world absolutely believable engine (the Pittsburgh Plymouths, the New York Chevvies) or suggested by the colors (Grays Boston, Cincinnati Blacks). Pages thick book of numbers, reports and strategies, lively (the name of each team was colored with a different color) that Jack jealously kept in a drawer that is fleshed out each year. A perfect structure, and completely non-existent, life the visionary imagination of the literary future, including coaches discussed, transfers and sensational owners ready to leave for too many complaints from fans who accuse them of mismanagement of the club. Do not miss updates and customization: comments from signed 'authoritative Jack Lewis, who is the' Anglicization the first name of Kerouac, Jean-Louis. Jack Lewis was the owner, fantabaseball home of Jack Lewis' s Baseball Chatter. The sporting history, paper, Kerouac is now part of the "Jack Kerouac Archive" at the Berg Collection of the New York Library: "We had prepared in 2007 - says the curator Isaac Gewirtz - but we did not have enough space. Now we found it. " And this week also released "Kerouac at bat: Fantasy Sports and the King of the Beats." Gewirtz also keeps the cards ("seem runic symbols) with which Kerouac gave scores to the launches carried out by him in the garden, while practicing the most rudimentary baseball home, with a stone ball and for the toothbrush turned into poker, "Jack was obsessed by sport." Not at this point, however, to imagine dirty (never writes to combine, or doping). The passion / obsession with the 'he inherited from his father, the great patrons of horse racing. It would have been an excellent athlete, but when I called Frank Leahy, coach of the football team at Boston College, he gave up: he had already become head writer and moving to New York: "Even among the pages of his baseball sensed the value of the writer. " Each player had his biography, told in detail, which showed a personality is always different, original, as if they were musicians or writers, too: "It is likely that all started when Jack had to deal with the pain for the death of his brother Gerard," continues Gewirtz. Gerard died at nine years old when Jack had only four. Ground in pain, he began to create their own universe of stratospheric home runs and unforeseen setbacks. He tried to play baseball in the yard, throwing what he could. Then, not having friends around, he began to imagine his championship, opted for the dining room to the garden: "He had the precision of the mathematician and the budding talent of the writer." At the peak of its evolution, the Kerouac League could also be extended to 50 matches to 'year until the World Series: season long. He seemed to have attended the Federal almanacs, Kerouac, for as he knew the ways and styles of 'list of the results for the familiar in arranging the numbers on the charts (complicated in baseball). 'S last comment is dated 1958, but Gewirtz believes that Kerouac has continued with fantabaseball up to two or three years after his death (1969). 'S unique among his friends, to be aware of' other Kerouac ("maybe he found out by accident," says Gewirtz), was Philip Whalen, poet himself: "Jack was afraid that his friends teased him '. Ginsberg even, perhaps, would be able to understand: "Why Kerouac, the matches, saw them seriously ~ '. It was not a joke. Before the beat, for him, there was the bat. The first typewriter was a baseball bat. - ENRICO SISTI - May 18, 2009 The Republic page. 29
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