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Lädt ... Something to Write Home About: Great Baseball Memories in Letters to a Fanvon Seth Swirsky
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Something to Write Home Aboutis a riveting collection of personal baseball memories told in handwritten letters to author and pop songwriter Seth Swirsky by the likes of President George W. Bush, Hall of Fame slugger Ernie Banks, Senator Edward Kennedy, Sir Paul McCartney, L.A. Dodgers all-star Shawn Green, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and many other well-known and passionate fans and players of the game. Jump inside this wonderfully original book and read these incredible stories, written by the people who were there as they happened. Filled with more than 170 rare photographs and amazing pieces of historic baseball memorabilia from the author’s own collection,Something to Write Home Abouttruly has something for every lover of baseball’s unpredictable energy and drama. During the baseball strike of 1994, Seth Swirsky stayed in touch with the game by writing letters to baseball players young and old—the famous and the not-so-famous. Those letters were turned into his first two bestselling books, Baseball Letters (1996) and Every Pitcher Tells a Story (1999). Something to Write Home About, the third in this remarkable trilogy, confirms Swirsky’s status as baseball’s number one fan and aficionado. Visually stunning, historically compelling, and just plain fun,Something to Write Home Aboutinvites readers to come in, pull up a chair, and spend some time reading these amazing and revealing recollections about baseball and life. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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One of the letters was from Ernie Harwell, longtime announcer for the Detroit Tigers, as he recalls being the one who selected the singers of the National Anthem for the 1968 World Series games. For game 5, he had selected Jose Feliciano. The NYT wrote a front page article the following day, trying to explain why Feliciano was booed and why so many fans disliked his rendition of the anthem. They said he had long hair (like a hippie) and that he slowed the song down. They said it was too *folk-soul*. In the photo, I would hardly call his hair long, especially for those days!
So, I had to google and here is the youtube clip of the performance. I am not American so this anthem is not part of my DNA, as it were; but I have been to, and watched, enough sporting events to say that I have always thought that song had an irregular and difficult to sing cadence. I have to say, though, that I think this is possibly the best rendition of the American anthem I have ever heard. It is melodic! I wish it could always be sung like this!!
The Anthem and the Controversy
I just want to add here that the photo in this article is not the original photo of Feliciano performing at the stadium as a 23-year old that appeared in the book. In the original photo, his hair barely comes to the bottom of his earlobes. Think the very early Beatles cut.
I found it odd that during that clip, the camera didn't once focus on Feliciano, except for a few seconds at the beginning of the clip.
And good thing there was no social media back then. Can you just imagine...!?
And one more clip, reminiscing, 41 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Api8xCezU9Q ( )