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Spitball: Spring 2021, No. 88
Spitball is a literary baseball magazine founded in 1981 and dedicated to poetry, short fiction, prose, art, and book reviews; all devoted to baseball.
48 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
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July 10, 2021
This issue was mostly devoted to submissions of regular folks' memories of the game, focusing often on memories of their youth, which didn't terribly interest me and the writing was often haphazard.
The layout for this issue was not well thought out either. Way too many continuation jumplines, and some of them went backward!
The most interesting piece was Meddy Ligner's prose "The Garocheurs and I," in which he regales us with tales of his young, amateur French baseball team, how they didn't really know much about the game (because baseball was not at all popular in France and anything baseball related was hard to come by there), but figured out piecemeal how to kinda play it anyway, and eventually toured around Europe playing other teams in places like Hungary and Ireland. The icing on the cake for this French team is that they got to play in Tunisia at one point.
The layout for this issue was not well thought out either. Way too many continuation jumplines, and some of them went backward!
The most interesting piece was Meddy Ligner's prose "The Garocheurs and I," in which he regales us with tales of his young, amateur French baseball team, how they didn't really know much about the game (because baseball was not at all popular in France and anything baseball related was hard to come by there), but figured out piecemeal how to kinda play it anyway, and eventually toured around Europe playing other teams in places like Hungary and Ireland. The icing on the cake for this French team is that they got to play in Tunisia at one point.
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