Friday, June 22, 2012

summer pleasures

Books, baseball, flowers & art.


No Catskills this weekend. Tomorrow I'll go to Boston to catch the last day of an exhibit of paintings of Provincetown (Cape Cod). I learned about it from Urban Cottage Steve. If you missed the post, take a look here--he includes pictures of many of the paintings.


I plan to spend the rest of the weekend reading, weeding, and watching baseball. I'm a New York Mets fan (living in the land of the Boston Red Sox) and they are playing the big bad New York Yankees--a subway series, and I wish I was in New York taking the #7 subway to the ballpark.


There are many good, and a few great books about baseball. The best of them are human interest/baseball as a metaphor for life...and appeal to people who aren't baseball fans. This is one--about a season with a minor league baseball team. Here is one of my favorite Roger Kahn quotes: "You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat." Appropriate for a Mets fan.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Jen

12 comments:

  1. Hi Jen

    Hope you have a lovely weekend "reading, weeding and watching baseball"

    I don't know a thing about baseball
    we don't play baseball here in Ireland
    maybe I should read that book!

    Enjoy x

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    1. Fiona--This book is definitely accessible for someone not familiar with baseball. Maybe I'll do a best baseball books post. :)

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  2. Thank you! I just got my book today. You are a lovely woman and I thank you mucho.

    I'm sorry to say I've just finished the first book in the Game Of Thrones, I know not why and I need to read the 2nd, immediately.

    so saving your book for dessert.

    Thank you again.

    xo Jane

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  3. I don't know about baseball, though I think Matsui plays in Mets. My husband really like to watch baseball and football on TV.

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    1. Does he watch American football (and not soccer, which is what we call what the rest of the world calls football)? My husband and son went to a baseball game in Japan and brought me back a team t-shirt. :)

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  4. Jay says that your quote is so true. Living in Trenton, he became a Mets fan in the '60s.

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    1. Oh yes, someone from Trenton would never be a Yankees fan! Does he read the Stephanie Plum novels to get some hometown flavor?

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  5. I had seen Steve's post and those paintings are magnificent, and I'm green with envy that you're seeing them in person. Enjoy! Another great baseball book: Men at Work by George Will. Aaaah Summer!

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  6. Have you read "The Art of Fielding"? Excellent book!
    Of course, I'm like the SF Giants.

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  7. I'm a little late to wish you a happy weekend so I wish you a happy Monday instead (sure hope you had fun!?) - still catching up on blogreading after a week on the road...

    xx

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  8. The paintings are lovely and I bet you had a marvelous time! We are not very familiar with baseball - it's more soccer over here. I like that picture book the bird looks lovely. I also like Georgia O'Keefe with the paintings of her deer skulls. Interesting post! Christa

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