tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post3336675536988729547..comments2024-03-05T15:10:07.370-06:00Comments on A Building Roam: Billy Sunday in UlyssesPQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-79224236595399428362012-06-20T21:25:48.110-05:002012-06-20T21:25:48.110-05:00Thanks Michael!
I'm glad you read it, this wa...Thanks Michael!<br /><br />I'm glad you read it, this was always a favorite post of mine and I always thought it didn't receive enough reads. <br /><br />Shortly after I wrote this post, in which I attempted to link together baseball and Joyce, the umpire Jim Joyce suddenly was the talk of the baseball world when his obvious error botched a perfect game. I then wrote a little piece on the event that eventually got linked by Rob Neyer of ESPN.com, a huge honor in my blogging history. (http://www.abuildingroam.com/2010/06/lesson-of-grace-from-galarraga-to-joyce.html)<br /><br />But yeah.... Billy Sunday!PQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-36884316020375779402012-06-20T03:29:18.487-05:002012-06-20T03:29:18.487-05:00What a wonderful new thing to me: the link between...What a wonderful new thing to me: the link between Billy Sunday and Joyce!<br /><br />Not long ago I started a list of novels in which there's a scene of kids in a catholic school being given the lecture about impure thoughts and God seeing all, shame, and glass being ground into your eyes by God if you even THINK about...what the Church doesn't want you to think about. It's in Portrait of the Artist (a version). It's in a James T Farrell book, the title I've forgotten. It's in Angela's Ashes. It's in RAW's Historical Illuminatus, and no doubt many more.<br /><br />This fascinates me because I find it a sort of sanctioned child abuse. I was not brought up in any church, but have seen many a friend stunted by their xtianity...<br /><br />Great post!michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.com