How one Vogue writer is passing along an appreciation for the game of baseball to his kids.
career was hardly Hall of Fame material: Career home runs? One. I can still feel that sweet moment when the bat connected with the pitch and I watched, almost in a trance, as the ball seemed to float away from the infield—but I can also remember vividly the teammate who tearfully screamed at me as I touched home plate.
Still, the game of baseball was talking to me. And then, in the way of all megalomaniacs, I suddenly wondered: Why couldn’t I start my own damn league and introduce kids to America’s pastime the way that I wanted to—to somehow wrangle all the fun of the game with none of the tedium?part was easy: Prospect Park and its ballfields are virtually at the end of our block.
Another bedrock requirement: music. I spent much of an evening making the ideal baseball-centric Spotify playlist. And while tastes of course may vary, if you don’t have a few tracks off Gil Imber’scompilation—along with John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” and some hard-rocking walk-up songs along with an old-time version of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” for whatever you want to call your seventh-inning stretch—you won’t be playing in my league.
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