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| Today is Opening Day at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati (Cincinnati Reds vs. San Francisco Giants) Baseball as a national rite of Spring - "It matters not whether you are interested in sports..." Spring as a time of great changes - Swings of feeling of exhilaration and sadness World Series as the Fall harvest celebration of America Baseball as a total abstraction - "a man with a stick" "a ball hurtling through the Spring air" "ritual cabbalistic uniforms with symbols" (ex. a cardinal, a bear cub) A description of opening day in Cincinnati with Ewell Blackwell "the Whip" pitching for the Reds - the opening ceremonies with drum majorette and band in a stadium surrounded by green fields, flocks of birds, and the river's "smell of a million kinds of life emerging" Why do we play games? "I have had victory over my enemies" "Men mulling for weeks over a single chess move" | |||||||||||||||||||
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Approx 4 min news with Lester Smith at end.
