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A certain patience and understanding is required; a definite attention span; a willingness to do the research; to understand the details; to expect the unexpected occurrences that can and will arise, and disrupt the flow and rhythm of the game, and your writing.
Writing is exciting
and baseball is like writing.
Art and the Zen of Baseball
The art and the zen of baseball has been widely and thoroughly examined and dissected by all manner of artists and aficionados; outside of Marianne Moore, the most entertaining purveyor being the fictional femme fatale, and poetry lover, Annie Savoy in the classic baseball movie Bull Durham (1988).