Freddy watched Lefty's first pitch come bouncing back to him, hissing sibilantly as it cut towards him in wild capers. A real 'grass-cutter,' he [Jack Kerouac] wrote in "Raw Rookie Nerves."The novella ends with the rookie second baseman turning a triple play, knocking himself out in the process of winning the pennant.
"I think that was going a little too far," Kerouac later wrote of his romantic tale. "But in all seriousness, heroism is still my goal, and I don't care how childish that may be, it's it."
from Colorado Rockies News: Kerouac, baseball and Denver
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