1B - Jack Elliot - Team#2_The Movies

Jack Eliot: We're not athletes, we're baseball players!

In high school, the baseball team spent the winter lifting mildewed plates on rusty bars in the weight room behind the auditorium. Three shrieks from the coach's whistle meant we were to disentangle ourselves from one medieval torture rack and promptly engage the next.

The football team shared the space. They appeared in groups of three or four, and they were often trailed by one of the army of football coaches. They attacked the weights, yelling and sucking air over their teeth. An offensive lineman, surname Shellnut, would let 250 pounds of bench press drop to his chest, caving it in momentarily before the bar sprang back up, traveling not far up again as his arms were short and compact. Shellnut shaved his head, and was not taller than five-foot-six.

In 8-year-old Sunday School, I once pulled the chair out from under Shellnut as he lowered himself to recline at a miniature arts and crafts table. He dropped and the back of his head socked the front of the wooden chair's seat as I watched in terror. I had not anticipated the successes and the ramifications of my actions, and was made to apologize.

mr. baseball, quotes, perhaps slightly unfair commercial juxtaposition

Lineup - The Movies

C -
1B - Jack Elliot
2B -
3B - Roger Dorn
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LF -
CF -
RF -

SP -
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