Crumbs in the Outfield Baseball Haikus Memories Reflections eBook Roger Frank
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Crumbs in the Outfield
I was born on the day Don Larsen pitched his no hitter, perfect game in the World Series, one of the most important days in baseball history. Baseball was in my blood and has been my whole life. The first Haiku in the book has some of the details. Baseball was my destiny, I didn’t have a choice.
“Crumbs in the Outfield” is one of the haikus in this collection. It’s also a funny title for a book on baseball and I suspect you’re asking why. The year was 1969. “The Glory of Their Times” had been published a few years earlier. It was the first time retired ballplayers told and recorded their stories which could be done with a “quasi-portable” tape recorder, invented a few years earlier.
Baseball and creativity was also inevitable. My Father is a writer and my Mother is an artist. Words and pictures were my bread and butter. I grew up in a “baseball home” and to combine words, pictures and baseball was my “normal”.
When you come from a literary and visual home, you realize stories and pictures are everywhere and baseball was no exception. After that season and following in the tradition of “Glory of Their Times” my father interviewed me about my little league baseball career and my mother took the pictures to match. “Crumbs in the Outfield” was that story.
I’ve loved and have read “baseball writings” my whole life. As a photographer I have taken more than my share of baseball pictures.
I’m also blessed to have many “baseball friends” who share my passion and who also can recall as if were yesterday certain moments, plays, statistics which are permanently enshrined in our collective baseball consciousness.
One such friend is unique. A Scotsman by birth, Duncan has never been to a game. We discovered we shared a unique passion for baseball Haikus and when he shared with me a book from his collection, “Baseball Haiku; The Best Haiku Ever Written about the Game”, it quickly went into the “Hall of Fame” of my own baseball library.
In parallel, and quite coincidentally, while reading the book I was introducing a friend of mine to the game who knew nothing about the sport. I found myself using certain phrases with consistency; “game within a game”, “shifting pressures”, “dynamics off the field”, “tradition and history”. I was explaining all those dramas, stories and subplots; all those “crumbs” which make up the total experience of baseball and became fodder for this collection.
One of my favorite quotes on writing is from Gwendolyn Brooks. She said (and I paraphrase) “The best way to write is to keep the distance as short as possible from your heart to the end of the pencil”. Something strange happened after reading the book. Like a line drive exploding from a bat, I began to write baseball Haikus. Or, like a batter in “the zone”, I channeled them. Many of the photographs are mine, some are not, and some are my Mothers. When a picture helped tell the story better I included it. When it detracted, I let the words take the lead.
Hope you enjoy these “Crumbs”.
About the Author-Photographer
Roger Frank is a baseball haiku writer and photographer. His photographs are in the permanent collection of The Bibliothèque Nationale de France. He has exhibited at The Delaware Art Museum, Provincetown Art Museums and Kazakhstan Museum of Art, Pavlodar, Russia. He has been published, reviewed and quoted in The Stamford Social Innovation Review, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Art News, Modern Photography, American Photographer and Historic Preservation. He was a founding member of “The Art Squad”, now the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts.
He has a BFA, Photography, cum laude, from the University of Delaware and an MBA in Finance and International Business from NYU Stern School of Business. And if you are wondering, he really was born on the day Don Larsen pitched his perfect game.
Crumbs in the Outfield Baseball Haikus Memories Reflections eBook Roger Frank
Hello Roger,I had the fortunate opportunity to follow some of your life haikus in reading your soon to be release "Crumbs in the Outfield". I scanned your book initially, then read it ardently and finally it brought waves of memories to my presence and equanimity. The purity of the game and your insight and talent to put words to your mindful images was an absolute delight.
Thank you,
Mitchell
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Crumbs in the Outfield Baseball Haikus Memories Reflections eBook Roger Frank Reviews
A delightful collection of history, family, and love America's favorite sport. Every baseball enthusiast should absolutely take the time to read.
I thoroughly enjoyed Crumbs in the Outfield. Through your wonderful photographs and haiku you really captured the beauty, excitement and personal growth that so many of us found in baseball.
Thank you for sharing this with me.
Hello Roger,
I had the fortunate opportunity to follow some of your life haikus in reading your soon to be release "Crumbs in the Outfield". I scanned your book initially, then read it ardently and finally it brought waves of memories to my presence and equanimity. The purity of the game and your insight and talent to put words to your mindful images was an absolute delight.
Thank you,
Mitchell
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