Catharsis On An Emerald Diamond
June, 1985
Considering that most sportswriters I know are drunks, speed freaks, adulterers, hopeless chain smokers or bad harmonizers (often all five if it's somebody I really want to hang out with), I find it amusing every spring when many of them turn lyrical as they sit down at their typing machines. Baseball does it. Along comes baseball season and guys who later in the summer will be writing their normal hardhitting, two-sentence paragraphs--"Fast-baller Jesus Marquez likes to throw at white peop...
