Posts Tagged: Kingston Society for Playing Catch and Vintage Base Ball
Vintage Base Ball Tomorrow
Posted by on Saturday, July 21, 2007 in - 2 comments
Some neato happening tomorrow as a small group of vehicles will leave Kingston filled with guys who are going to play a game in another country that they have never played before. Heck, even though we've had a batting practice, all nine players have not even been in the same room together yet. But …
It Is Right And Proper To Dislike FIFA
Posted by on Sunday, March 4, 2007 in - 40 comments
I am greatly saddened by the whole soccer head scarf debate surrounding one girl who wants to play. Playing is good and as we learn over and over FIFA is bad. It is not a difficult or even controversial statement. It is simply so. Feel good about thinking FIFA bad. Does anyone shed a tear for the …
Kingston Society For Playing Catch Update
Posted by on Saturday, March 3, 2007 in - 10 comments
The KSPC met yesterday but I was not able to attend. The big news is that we are now including membership from outside the workplace but that is because someone got a new job. • So far proposed activities of the club have been more refined to include most any game you play without the need to …
Village Games
Posted by on Monday, October 2, 2006 in - 23 comments
What are you but for me? • I was sent off on a YouTube adventure by a kind reader of note who last evening sent me emails with videos of cheese rolling attached like this one and all these. • That got me thinking that maybe there were videos of the ancient pre-football village games that … read more »
My New KSPC Hat
Posted by on Friday, September 22, 2006 in - 7 comments
It came in the mail today. My 7-1/2 hand made wool 1950s Kansas City hat. This is one serious hat. Leather rim on the inside. Warm real wool on my head. All organic, it's like having something alive on your head, settling in and finding its place as it learns your real needs. • This is a fine …
Is This The Hat For The KSPC?
Posted by on Monday, August 28, 2006 in - 18 comments
Now that the "Kingston Society for Playing Catch" (KSPC) has been founded and the flood of offers for branches world-wide have begun to pour in, the important question of the cap is rearing its head. There must be a cap. I don't know if this is it. Kingston's traditional sporting colours are black …
Friday Cogitiferiffic Chatarama
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2006 in - 9 comments
Who the hell ever thought I would make it to August 25th 2006? Aside from the whole thing in Mexico in '66 (thank you Pepe), I got through the nuclear war along with all of you, got through my teens without being eaten by a backroad ditch along with pals, got though a holiday in Paris as Syria was …
