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Some earlier posts have been strange experiments when a photo, often a panoramic, is distorted by what is called Polar Coordinates. Looking at the more logical picture here, Cub prospect Josh Vitters is tossing a ball underhanded from his third base position. The photo has a top, a bottom, and left & right sides. Imagine that the photo is printed on an easily manipulated balloon; the right edge is pulled into the circle and meets the left edge, upside down, from the middle to the top. The top edge has disappeared altogether into that single center point. The bottom edge has been curved and distorted into three sides of the second view.
Polar Coordinate experiments often produce interesting images (or uninteresting ones which should be rejected). Other times the experiment might do more. Considering the pressure on a young prospect, considering all the things that might indeed go wrong, considering injuries or lack of learning in the future, considering competition and bad luck: isn't every minor leaguer stretched out and wrapped into a whirlwind on his road to the majors? The more I look at this image, the better I like its poetic impression. I think it is a keeper.
A poem about how the whirlwind is manifested in Fitch Park through sight and sound:
CRUNCH OF CLEATS
Crunch of cleats, metal biting into concrete, is a traditional sound of
Baseball, one I recall as spectator, as umpire, as player, as coach.
Minor league spring training camp includes a hundred forty or more
Players, learning and working and trying to become the two stars
Who will dominate the baseball news in five to seven years.
As they move quickly from one drill location to another, they scrape
Out a furrow, digging through the smooth cement finish to the
Gravel underlayment, one after another, every spring, concentrating
On beating the path all the way to the major leagues.
Crunch of cleats, metal biting into concrete, is a traditional sound of
Baseball, one I recall as spectator, as umpire, as player, as coach.
Minor league spring training camp includes a hundred forty or more
Players, learning and working and trying to become the two stars
Who will dominate the baseball news in five to seven years.
As they move quickly from one drill location to another, they scrape
Out a furrow, digging through the smooth cement finish to the
Gravel underlayment, one after another, every spring, concentrating
On beating the path all the way to the major leagues.
Earlier posts also showed my personal magazine -- the one with just a cover, no other pages. The next issue is scheduled to appear in the next post.
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