The Book of Cardinals 2004by Jan Rehacek
Part I. Namesakes
Part II. 7th Inning Stretch of Imagination
Part III. Three Dreams
Since I wrote
this text more than a year ago, some
of the original sources of photos disappeared from the cyberspace.
I was able to trace authors of photographs in Part III., but many other
photos remain anonymous (particularly in Part II). If you know the original
photographers, please, let me know so I could credit them or replace the photos.
All comments, questions, corrections and suggestions should be sent to the address below:
Written: November 2004 © 2005 Jan Rehacek
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This is a series of
short texts, mostly
spoofs, about the St Louis Cardinals, about baseball and
about life in general. All texts
are purely fictional and their ties with reality are loose at best.
They are
not meant to be grounds for legal, medical or financial advice. And they were
certainly not written to provide an erudite commentary after a great
season. After all, you can always purchase an expertly opinion at the newsstand.
Actually, I don't think they were
written at all. I just kind of found them buried in my memory one October evening,
during the
Astros Series. First just a
few of them, but as I started digging them out and dusting them off I
realized that there is more and more and by the time the NLCS series ended,
the contours
of all the twenty seven pieces were clearly visible in the upturned soil.
And I remember distinctly I did not put them there.
Nor was I too keen on writing a text about a sport that I barely understood
in a language that I barely spoke, but I
did cough them up as I felt that I could use all that extra space in my
memory for remembering where I put my glasses after I come back from the shower.
So if I were to describe how this book came to be, I'd say
it was excavated from my mind with a tireless keyboard
and about 5 gallons of cranberry juice.
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