THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I have written books about baseball, and I have found that it resembles a poetics.  I analyzed the game in terms of infinities and limitations.  The diamond playing field is a form of limitation, but the home run area is an infinite space.  Infinity is sometimes poetry.  But in the diamond there are very strict rules, as is the case for prose.  Babe Ruth said, “The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball”.

Takashi Hiraide/BOMB