Three Things: Baseball Edition

Spring is here, and with it, the aroma of hot dogs and peanuts and cracker jacks, the reverberation of an electric organ bouncing around a stadium. Or, more simply, the yells of kids down the street, punctuated by the crack of bat on ball. I played Little League as a kid, but the true baseball soul in my household belongs to the man I’m marrying next month.

As he ushers in the season with his favorite past time, I’m pulling out my pen and paper. Join me?

Colin Blakely, An Inability to Shake the Feeling of Running the Wrong Way into the Unknown, from Somewhere in Middle America series. Photograph. www.colinblakely.com

Paul Sample, Sand Lot Ball Game, 1938. Oil on canvas. The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, New York.

Don Hamerman, Rawlings, from Found Baseballs series. Photograph. www.hamerman.com