![]() ![]() ![]() Kerouac added journalistic touches to his baseball league. ![]() During the earlier years of his baseball league, he named his teams after car brands: Through his game, Kerouac created his own fictitious world of baseball, proceeding from season to season. The book is published by the New York Public Library (Gewirtz is a curator there), and it’s listed in the NYPL’s online catalog. With baseball season moving into full swing, I’m delighted to highlight Isaac Gewirtz’s Kerouac at Bat: Fantasy Sports and the King of the Beats (2009), a colorful 100-page book about Kerouac’s fantasy sports world, including plenty of photos of Kerouac’s own baseball game and the voluminous league records he maintained. But did you also know that he was a big sports fan who blended a love of baseball and a rich imagination to create a homebrewed tabletop baseball game? The game featured a league of fictitious teams and ballplayers that he played for years, well into his adulthood. You may be familiar with Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) as the author of novels (e.g., On the Road) and poetry that established him as an iconic figure of the Beat Generation. ![]()
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