Perhaps Crossing The Barriers Of Time Has

I Knew How To Read Box Scores And Who The Baseball Heroes Were Before I Had Ever Seen Or Even Heard Much Of A Game.

Baseball Is The Most Perfect Of Games, Solid, True, Pure And Precious As Diamonds. If Only Life Were So Simple. Within The Baselines Anything Can Happen. Tides Can Reverse; Oceans Can Open. That's Why They Say, "the Game Is Never Over Until The Last Man Is Out." Colors Can Change, Lives Can Alter, Anything Is Possible In This Gentle, Flawless, Loving Game.

Other People Get Into Occupations By Accident Or Design; But Writers Are Born. I Could Work At Selling Motels, Or Slopping Hogs, For Fifty Years, But If Someone Asked My Occupation, I'd Say Writer, Even If I'd Never Sold A Word. Writers Write. Other People Talk.

Perhaps Crossing The Barriers Of Time Has Freed Me.

Most Writers Are Unhappy With Film Adaptations Of Their Work, And Rightly So. 'field Of Dreams,' However, Caught The Spirit And Essence Of 'shoeless Joe' While Making The Necessary Changes To Make The Work More Visual.