The second production of short baseball fiction from Symphony Space, which originally aired Oct. 12, 2007 by Public Radio International, featured:
- Various authors, Baseball Haiku, read by Alec Baldwin and Isaiah Sheffer (from
Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game, W.W. Norton). Frankly, I couldn’t always catch the 17 syllables that make up a “formal” haiku. Poetry is an acquired taste, anyway. - T.C. Boyle, “The Hector Quesadilla Story,” read by Jerry Zaks (from T.C. Boyle: Stories Viking). Well read, but a bit rushed at the end.
- Lawrence S. Ritter, “The Glory of Their Times” excerpt, read by Jonathan Rubinstein (from: The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It, Harper). It would have been nice if they identified which player was the subject of this particular excerpt.
- Rolphe Humphries, “Polo Grounds,” read by Fritz Weaver (from: Baseball: A Literary Anthology, edited by Nicholas Dawidoff, The Library of America). See previous entry.
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