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Baseball not just a game,prof says
Sport metaphor for many things
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
Baseball fans were given a different meaning of the game yesterday when they gathered in the Kansas Union to hear Gerald Early's essay "House of Ruth, House of Robinson: Observations on Baseball, Biography and the American Myth."
Early, professor of English and Afro-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, offered a new way to look at and think about baseball to the 50 people who attended his reading.
His essay focused on the political, social and cultural meaning of baseball. Early gave examples of the game in which baseball has had on people's lives.
Citing references that former president Richard Nixon made to baseball in his book, "Six Crises," Early said that for Nixon, baseball became the central media for the widest audience of philosophical schism Nixon could imagine.
"It is crucial in understanding Nixon to note his singular use of baseball metapherns for his most important role. Ameri- impost powerful enemy."
"He does not invoke an image of baseball as romantic or pastoral. His image of baseball mirrored the man himself, the embodiment of the man himself," Early said.
"Nixon was absorbed by the power of athletics, by its power of metaphor and by its inseparability of ideals from action."
Early also looked at President
"Bush had a boyish, typically American worship for baseball heroes." Early said.
But for Gehrig and Ruth, baseball offered an upward mobility that it did not offer Bush.
"Playing professional baseball is that version of the American dream which in most cases is better to have dreamed than to have fulfilled," he
safely.
Taking a look at the lives of baseball greats Willie Mays and Jackie Robinson, Early said that baseball meant something different to both of those players.
He said Mays never forced an issue.
"It is doubtful whether he understood that any issue existed beyond playing the game," Early said. "Virtually all of Mays' autobiography is devoted to his career as a ballplayer."
play.
Robinson, on the other hand,
placed less value on baseball. Early said that more than half of Robinson's book was about his life after baseball.
"It is an indication, not only of the length of athletic careers of the two men, but of the shaded meaning of the two careers."
the two careers.
"Robinson could never be satisfied by baseball. Mays could be satisfied by nothing else," he said.
Tom Jackson, Overland Park junior, who attended the reading, said, "Early did a good job in displaying the changes that have come about in the last 50 years, not only in baseball, but society as a whole."
George Wedge, associate professor of English and chairman of the
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Speaking about the metaphorical and cultural aspects of baseball and its players, Gerald Early, professor of English and Afro-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, answers questions.
lectures-readers committee, said Early was invited to speak so that students could hear his essays.
"There are not many writers who practice writing literary essays in our time." Wedge said.
From 1985 to 1987, Early was a KU minority post-doctorate fellow in the
English department.
Because of his knowledge and understanding of black literature, Early served as guest editor of the special double issue of Cottonwood, a KU literary magazine, which was edited by the black authors, Wedge said.
Hutchinson shoots down handgun ordinances
The Associated Press
HUTCHINSON — Hutchinson city commissioners voted 3-2 to abandon ordinances that would have imposed a 48-hour waiting period on the purchase of handguns and banned assault riffes in the city.
An audience of 150 people filled the
"I still feel strongly these types of ordinances have too many holes and would not fly," said Commissioner
commission chambers and the foyer outside Tuesday as the commissioners voted against the ordinance. Almost everyone attending opposed the gun ordinances.
Joan Schrag, who made the motion to kill the proposed ordinances. "I think we would be creating an even bigger problem."
During the two hours of discussion, only one person stepped forward to speak in favor of the handgun ordinance. Every other person who spoke urged the commission to vote against the ordinances.
--nance. Every other person who spoke urged the commission to vote against the ordinances.
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