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Subject: Jack Kerouac played fantasy baseball Posted by: Seattle Zen - [324161611] Sat, May 16, 2009, 13:50  Famous author created his own fantasy baseball game when he was a kid and simulated games, keeping stats. Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up players like Wino Love, Warby Pepper, Heinie Twiett, Phegus Cody and Zagg Parker, who toiled on imaginary teams named either for cars (the Pittsburgh Plymouths and New York Chevvies, for example) or for colors (the Boston Grays and Cincinnati Blacks). He collected their stats, analyzed their performances and, as a teenager, when he played most ardently, wrote about them in homemade newsletters and broadsides. He even covered financial news and imaginary contract disputes.  What a cool find. I, too, created a fantasy simulated baseball league with a friend when I was a teenager. We used the ten-sided die from Dungeons and Dragons and created a set of results based upon percentages. Created a bunch of teams with made-up player names and kept track of everything on paper. Stopped playing after a year or two, so it was interesting to see Kerouac kept playing into his thirties. | |||||||
| 1 | holt ID: 303502019 Wed, May 20, 2009, 01:07 |
When I was that age it was APBA baseball for me, and then Earl Weaver when I got a PC. We actually played APBA on the bus on our way to play high school baseball games. Kinda funny that you can now simulate an entire baseball season with one keystroke, in a matter of seconds. I guess that takes fun out of it though. My dad and I used to do tournaments with a bunch of all-time great teams (using APBA). It was a lot more doable than simulating a full season. Then with Earl Weaver Baseball we'd draft teams consisting of all-time greats, along with one team each of made up players. My dad's team mostly consisted of the Wilcox family, a bunch of backward hillbillies. Had a lot of fun with that. Still have a "family portrait" that we drew of them. :D | ||||||
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