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...rest of the country is satisfied to watch one New York team at a time - at most. One species of the lout is enough. Most people do not distinguish the mythologies of the Mets from those of the Yankees (it's not the same as the old Yankee-Dodger dichotomy) and so it was hard for outlanders to know which side to root...
...cigarette boat. The Yankees have notched 25 world championships in the better part of a century in the Bronx; the Mets just two since their inaugural season in 1962. The Yankee pinstripes are a sports icon; the Mets' blue-and-orange were themselves a knockoff, a combination of Dodger blue and Giants orange, two teams that with the Yankees defined the Subway Series from the first in 1921 to the last in 1956. The Yankees dominated those matchups. The Mets weren't even born...
When Jackie Robinson was near death and blind from diabetes, he was given a day of celebration at Dodger Stadium. As he was led back to the clubhouse, Jim Murray, the great sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times, touched him on the shoulder and identified himself. "Oh, Jim!" said Jackie. "I wish that I could see you again." Murray responded, "Jackie, I wish that I could see you again." Tom Callahan, another great sportswriter, told me that story...
...very ordinary. Ruscha, in fact, literally takes us into the plane with him in his series "34 Parking Lots in Los Angeles." Shot aerially, their meticulously drawn lines, directional arrows and predictably spaced gas stains are suddenly mesmerizing--and humorous. One stand-out is the photograph of the Dodger Stadium parking lots: emanating radially from the stadium like the leaves of an artichoke, they are at once industrial and organic. Ruscha's painted evocations of Los Angeles' grid-like topography (straight lines, written names) likewise succeed in turning our personal (and local and national) geographies topsy-turvy...
...when a Dodger team consistently consigned to last place finished first, or a Red Sox crew in which everyone knew their role and surpassed it, it reminded us of our remarkable capability to defy our doubters and briefly illuminate the world with the inner light that drives...