Comments on: Matthew Levine and Robert Haydon Jones

By: Chris E.

Chris E. — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:45:30 +0000

Nicely done. Great visuals!!! Think we knew this kid – maybe really well!

By: Dave Monroe

Dave Monroe — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:01:16 +0000

Nicely done! The excitement of catching the home run ball. Very visceral. But then he lets his brothers use and loose the ball. Maybe the catch wasn’t actually the ball: the “catch” was the moment the ball was scooped up and triumphantly put in his pocket — something that can never be lost in a fallow hay field

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:18:15 +0000

It’s again a subtle gift Jimmy has to capture inner conversations of modern blokes. You reach a crescendo in your soul imagining holding that Hallowed ancient orb in your very hand today in our bedraggled modernity… that which Jackie’s ash kissed into eternity in a Black & white world now buried at Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. But in the end it is just a thing like all the stuff of our lives. It would really be somewhat lurid to see it now mummified in a glass shroud like the Yellowed tibia of one of Pyrhhus’s “victors” found on an Aegean beach and lacquered into a showcase. Like always, the memory is more tasty in the end — like the dank earthen sweetness glowing off a carton of strawberries, all dewy and bursting red, added to the sack (on second thought) from the old Rippe’s Farm stand (now a 7-11 by some upscale condos. The inevitably lost ball of legend seems like justice, the better luck next time for the black kid whose 70 year later musings On that moment and the minutes and miles and laughters and tears afterward have been oh so different.

By: John Haydon Tucker

John Haydon Tucker — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:33:45 +0000

Good to see Jimmy O back on the page. Love that guy!

By: daniel shulman

daniel shulman — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 20:52:37 +0000

Sic transit gloria mundi, but not for R.H. Jones. It beggars belief that jimmy let hi brothers play with the sacred ball, but it meets expectations that they lost it. In a few paragraphs, we have something to rival “A Day in the Bleachers.”

By: Jack orth

Jack orth — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 12:45:24 +0000

Robert–You bring me back to the good old days! But when The Red Sox had Jackie Robinson come to Fenway Park to see what he could do was one sad day for many Bostonians–they had no intention of taking on Jackie–he was black and that was that! They played the game of letting him come to the park–but knew he’d never play for The Sox. It has always been a huge scar on the Sox–and they missed the chance to have one of the greatest players ever make The Green Monster look like it was at The little ball field at the playground! And here we are now, years later, turning down black people like they do today. Get with it, America–get with it!–Great story, Robert!–Semper Fi–Jack