The Chrysanthemum and the Bat by Robert Whiting. 1977. Avon Books.
So I've been talking a lot about how baseball differs from America to Japan. I found the perfect quote which does a great job of contrasting the two countrys' leagues by offering two contrasting similes for each one.
"American pro-baseball teams are run like corporations, with their members united by a common ability to play and their desire to make money. Not so in Japan, where a baseball team is more like a cohesive extended family unit held together by a complex web of interlocking personal obligations. The kind of intersquad bickering that characterizes some U.S. teams is virtually unknown."
This quote was great. It took the ideas I was already getting and put them on paper in a way that just presented information staright up through two similes.
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:-) Hooray for similes!
Don't you see sports as providing a religious outlet for many in America? We cry at the Olympics because of the nobility of the game; we honor our "warriors"/players with money and accolades. It seems that at some levels there are striking similarities in devotion.
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