Watch the entire Ken Burns series on baseball, which will be both inspiration and education itself, and then get a simple notebook to “score” at least a couple of the games you watch—charting the action in an elegant, clear way that will not only help you focus on what’s happening, but allow you to relive the game batter-by-batter and inning-by-inning, seeing clearly what brought about the scoring and the game’s conclusion.
I hadn’t watched the video until after I posted my suggestion of scoring the game, so I had to laugh with delight when I heard you ask your friend about that first thing. I felt sure that would appeal to you, from listening to you in interviews for years! (I’m one of those “older guys” he mentioned, who still practice what he called “kind of a lost art!”)
Watch the entire Ken Burns series on baseball, which will be both inspiration and education itself, and then get a simple notebook to “score” at least a couple of the games you watch—charting the action in an elegant, clear way that will not only help you focus on what’s happening, but allow you to relive the game batter-by-batter and inning-by-inning, seeing clearly what brought about the scoring and the game’s conclusion.
I hadn’t watched the video until after I posted my suggestion of scoring the game, so I had to laugh with delight when I heard you ask your friend about that first thing. I felt sure that would appeal to you, from listening to you in interviews for years! (I’m one of those “older guys” he mentioned, who still practice what he called “kind of a lost art!”)