Re: Baseball, be good to me....
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:25:55 -0700 (MST)
Here's how I've mathmatically deduced Salinger was a Yankee fan.
He was born in l919. That means he was 8 when the l927 yankees had the
babe hitting sixty and the rest of baseball out classed completely.
Sociologists often term the baseball fan's eigth birthday, "fan
determination day" and it seems most young boys were likely to be swayed
by the sultan of swat, the iron man play of Lou Gehrig, and the canny
on-field wisdom of Miller Huggins.
Here's how I've used literary allusion to interpret Salinger's yankee
allegiance:
Mary Hudson, "MH" = Miller Huggins, Manager of the l927 yankees and a
character whose last name has to point directly (if not iroonically) to
Gedsudski's actual coldness.
Here's how I've psychoanalyzed the proof: Allie Caulfield was a character
who was constructed from Salinger's remorse over Lou Gehrig's death,
according to a letter from the author to Sigmund Freud.
I do agree Paul that God has wisdom and must think that only a fan
such as she would make the Yankees the winningest baseball team of all
time.
If last year didn't make you a believer, this year..., will