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Friday, 29 April 2005

Wiffle. The sport of kings.

Invented, by the way, by the Moghul rulers of India, for whom it had great religious significance before it was bastardized by British imperialists who converted it to cricket, which became rounders, which became town ball, which became baseball.

The above is complete nub-droppings, by the way. But when you're risking the league's second broken collarbone by diving for a ten-cent plastic sphere as it rolls through an uneven patch of ground we call Clavicle Alley, that millisecond sure feels a lot more dignified if you can imagine centuries of split-rail bats, men named Winthorp, and statues of Ganesh behind you.

Mock if you must. But we've still outdrawn the NHL this year.

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