Poetry in sport - The home run metaphor

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"Pedes in terra ad sidera visus"

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The home run metaphor


Baseball is a sport with a lot of roots in American lands, especially in North America and the Caribbean islands. Venezuela is bathed by the Caribbean Sea and participates in the culture of the area, including the taste for baseball, being somehow the most traditional sport, becoming part of the heart and speech of the people.

The origin of this sport is not very clear, according to its history, but the year 1774 has been accepted as the beginning of the term "Baseball" to refer to a ball game it was practiced in England and supposed to be taken to United States by English settlers. However, the regulation and modern form of the game evolved in New York from 1845.

When Baseball arrived in Venezuela, the twentieth century was near, because it is estimated that it was in the last stretch of the nineteenth century that the first club was founded, playing the first exhibition game in 1895. And what began as a game of Elites, became the most popular sport in Venezuela during the twentieth century, with Caracas and Magallanes as the great rivals that generate all kinds of social gatherings and gatherings.

Thus, with a ball, bats and gloves, nine members of each team play for nine innings to produce races driven by unstoppable balls batted for the opposing team, on the defensive. The magic happens when a homer occurs, the ball leaves the playing field looking for dreams, producing, consequently, the impulse of a race and, if there are players in the bases, each one scores, being the "quid" a homer with all the bases full, four races at once, the momentary glory for the team that connects it: "The feet on the ground, the look in the sky".

That is why the homer is a metaphor for achievement, for dreams that fly, of an infinite moment, of astonishment, poetry and life.

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By Zeleira Cordero @zeleiracordero.

28/08/2019

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You, like to write sports articles are also amazing to see you here again

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Everything in life is interconnected, it is a matter of attending to the signs of life in what contains it and sport is a vessel that brings growth and channels dreams, so it has poetry: that is my point.

Greetings, it's nice to see you here.

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Great essay. I learned a bit I didn't know about the sport.

I loved baseball as a kid… even played a bit. I was a heavy hitter on my elementary and middle school teams. In elementary school, homeruns were my thing. I actually put out a couple of windows on houses that backed the school field. I couldn't catch or run to save me, but I could hit it out of the park on those little league fields. ⚾️ They made me quit when puberty slammed into me.

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