UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 1, 1994
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Pearly Gates lead to a field of dreams
Kids ask: Will there be baseball in heaven?
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The Associated Press
The child sleeping with a glove becomes the adolescent who lies awake before a big game. The adult who keeps his big-league dreams alive in Saturday softball games becomes the father who plays catch with his son in the backyard.
Aid nearly from the moment children discover God, a question forms in the back of their minds about the permanence of their love affair with a bat and ball: Will there be baseball in heaven?
Stop worrying, say clergy, theologians, ex-ballplayers and others interviewed as an American rite of spring. Opening Day, bookings 9/12.
Of course, the Scriptures do not discuss baseball, notes Ernie Harwell, longtime announcer for the Detroit Tigers. "But they do tell us heaven will be what we want it to be. So I think if you want baseball to be there, it will
be there," he says. "So, bring your glove!"
For some, the discussion brings to mind the joke about two friends who have played baseball together all their lives. One day, Joe and Frank make a pact that whoever dies first will let the other know whether there is baseball in heaven.
Frank passes away, and several days later Joe hears his friend's voice. "Joe," Frank says, "I have some good news and bad news. The good news is the baseball here is the best, the sun is shines and the fields are glorious. The bad news: You're the starting pitcher tomorrow."
In religious circles, no one will claim a definitive knowledge of heaven. Eternal life is accepted as a matter of faith, and even theologians trust in God to work out the details later.
But there is something about baseball, not only America's favorite pastime but one of its most joyous, that easily evokes images of eternal bliss.
"Oh, I think absolutely there'll be baseball in heaven or it wouldn't be heaven," says broadcaster and former player Joe Gariagi.
Of all the nation's games, baseball is the most timeless, says Roman Catholic theologian Michael Novak. There are no clocks, and the game could go on forever until 27 outs are recorded.
Think back to when you were a child, he says, and you were almost unconscious of time during an afternoon playing baseball.
"A baseball game, in principle, is infinite," says Novak, who in March won the $1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. "It's one of our best images in life of eternity."
What will baseball be like behind the Golden Gates?
Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell, who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960 World Series, says several things will be different.
"There won't be any liquor or beer in the stands. And I don't know where they're going to recruit the umpires from," the ex-ballplayer says.
Shirl Hoffman, head of the department of exercise and sports science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, sees baseball returning to its roots before free agency, teams
abandoning cities and the other exigencies of modern-day sport to a time when it was just a kid, a bat and a taped-up ball. "There would be pickup stickball games on the Golden Streets," he savs.
Ah, don't sweat the details, Harwell says.
"What it's like is what you want it to be like," he says. "If you want grass, there will be grass. If you want Astroturf, it will be Astroturf."
But it can't stop the faithful fans of teams like the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox from wondering whether there is hope beyond this vale of tears on Earth for the joy of a world championship.
Will they finally see their teams win a World Series in heaven?
Yes, says the Rev. W. Laurence O'Neil of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn.
"We Red Sox fans have suffered long enough," O'Neil says. "We've got to be rewarded for our long suffering." No way, Garcia says.
"That will take a miracle," he says.
"And miracles will be over by then."
Clinton signs Goals 2000 Education Act into law
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Half a decade after states began trying to improve their public schools, they finally have some financial support from the federal government.
President Clinton signed the Goals 2000 Educate America Act into law yesterday and by July 1, the first $105 million will begin flowing to states that apply for it.
"This is the beginning. It is the foundation. Today we can say America is serious about education," Clinton said just before signing the bill on the outdoor basketball court of a San Diego elementary school.
The law requires participating states to develop — but not implement — education reform plans that set voluntary standards on curriculum, student performance and on the resources, materials and teacher preparation necessary to ensure that all children
have an opportunity to learn.
The bill authorizes $647 million this year for education reforms that move toward that goal, including $400 million in grants to states and local school agencies.
The Education Department promises a "quick and simple application" process. "It's really inconceivable that any state that applies won't get funds," said Mike Cohen, a senior adviser to Education Secretary Richard Rilev.
Among the things to be examined: how the states plan on getting the money to local school districts and individual schools.
States will have two years to complete their reform plans. "If we're convinced its aimed at challenging standards for all students, if the plan is really comprehensive and it's a promising one, we'll continue to provide funding," he said. They also will be allowed to apply for waivers from federal regulations.
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