12/1/99
Softball: Kosher
Dear People,
It will soon be three long weeks since most of you will have tended to the cardiovascular realities of your precariously sedentary lives, the insidious blubber-building inertia of your body’s 800 Billion cells triggering unfathomable angst in every one of their tiny little nuclei. Frankly, the whole scenario leaves me both jittery and jejune, and when I reflect further on the copious amounts of Thanksgiving turkey, eggroll and gristle that all of you have recently consumed, I am simply grateful that we as a people have access to the recreational tools upon which to at least staunch the ceaseless
decay of our ever ripening bones.
In any case, most of you probably know that this Saturday is the first day of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of lights in which eight candles are lit over eight days, each representing the eight non-pitching positions of a standard baseball team’s defense. According to the Torah, the Israelites of the 11th century BC were the first to establish this magical and enduring tradition, a full 3,000 years before Sandy Koufax reawakened Jewish consciousness in this ancient game of ball, mitt and skullcap. Therefore, there will be a game at Codornices this Saturday at 11AM, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning. So do what is righteous no matter your creed or origin, for on those moist and fertile soils of that hallowed Berkeley park, there is no Jew or Gentile come the time to play. Rather, there are just humble East Bay folk, at peace in the knowledge that theirs is the Sport of the Lord….Ray
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