Angels of Fields

A baseball video-game rater and sports-writer considers if his new collection of treasures is creating visions of specters in the American 'cloud' of Paris.

A sports-superstition tale, drawn from various media and my lifelong 'American' fascination with the elegiac sport of baseball! Thanks for reading (and Happy Summer), 

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I was making special ratings of the history of baseball video-games in America and decided to complement this enriching media-life activity with a collection of sports-market treasures, such as figurines and cards and tickets and field-souvenirs for a memory-game 'linking' (nicely!) with a modern/Homeland expression concerning 'real' wishes (for all).

I decided to share my Selfie on social-media and used it complement my sportsmanship re-presentations (baseball!) which would include these collected treasures (I mentioned earlier!), and I considered myself 'lucky' to view this form of cyber-highway(s) activity for a Western-world 'handshake' appealing to an American 'examination' of 'personality' in media-life metaphysics (for all).

Well, my girlfriend (Esmerelda) considered this newfound social-media interest in sports/sharing quite a 'savvy' view for modern American vitality/energizers and offered to offer herself as a sports-storyboard complementary 'sky-model' for field-image mosaics to accent these tales and presentations of baseball's special magazine-friendly handshake (for all).

Unfortunately for the American landscape, sometimes it may feel like sports (e.g., baseball!) can feel like a 'natural-escape' from the harsh/dark/mysterious forms of our nation's complicated history and experiences in the developing Earth-world of engagements in malady (Coronavirus), wars (Afghan War), and even homegrown 'troubles' (Race Riots), and for my sports-superstition presentation concerning baseball's cool 'field' appeal for social-media handshakes/metaphysics in capitalism-race symbols/ideology/Romanticism, I needed to find some more/deep 'magical' lens for the themes and 'agenda' behind this choreographed 'American' image of socialized wishes.

Americans love movies and magic and the casting of street-life and history and local lore and community values and fantasy-ideations and politics-depth into the frames/portraits of 'dynamic' stories and artwork and the 'science' of memory itself! Well, my baseball-cyber presentation would certainly need to invoke this purely 'American' sense of sportsmanship/competition drawn natural landscape 'fascination' with the magazine-friendly 'image' of fortune/fate handshakes (for all?).

So, I began crafting this 'nifty' little sportsman's tale for the cyber-Homeland audience(s) and baseball became my little collections/superstition/games 'field' for invoked magic and complexity, and I framed a tale in which athletes dismissed from the arena because of injuries magically saw themselves healing and playing in superior ways (in secret!) in a special (secret!) field called Angel-Zone (Paris, TX). However, after I wrote this deeply-moving image-rich tale of baseball for the American examination, I started having dreams in which 'dolls' and 'figurines' of baseball-caricature and fields were coming-to-life and whispering messages to me (e.g., "Americans need a 'golden' moment/mitt for a real 'rouge' handshake for all!"). Wow, what a 'medicine-hotel' this had become for this American writer/fan (of baseball).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)