Floodlights and Goalposts

An online commonplace book

David Bentley Hart and the beauty of baseball.

there’s the sheer beauty of it for athet, you know know all the sports have great athletes but for sheer grace and speed, for for, the combination of power and grace there’s nothing like what happens say in the infield when a beautiful double play is turned to see Ozzie Smith made plays at short stop that that were balletic in a way that nothing, and I mean nothing that happens in those other games matches

– David Bentley Hart

No one. And I mean no one, speaks baseball the way David Bentley Hart does. The details, the passion, the reverence.

All in time for Spring Training.

That from the new documentary DBH: Cutting Forms from Mystery:


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