Re: Academic Salinger Conference Presentation
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:59:27 -0500 (EST)
> (To think that George Steinbrenner and Reggie Jackson and Bucky Phucking Dent
>took over a legacy of Gehrigs and DiMaggios and Whitey Fords and Mickey
>Mantles is more than a little sad.)
Some Honourable Members: Here, here!
....in fact, it's almost as sad as the fact that the Dodgers left Brooklyn;
or the fact that they tore down Ebbet's Field....
--Paul
OSO--Some time ago, I tried to get something going on the topic of Allie's
baseball mitt. I wondered aloud (if it's possible to do so in cyberspace?)
what specific poems people thought might have been inscribed thereon. I'm
sure if CITR had been penned by Buddy Glass instead of Holden Caulfield,
we'd have been given chapter and verse....