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By Jim Williams
Baseball. Critical scholar George Grella was talking
baseball to about 15 members of the UNL English fac
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"I've done a lot of work with the aesthetics of games,"
the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., professor
said. "Baseball is i remarkable, almost unique sport.
"Baseball has only 2 lines. The game opens up into
infinity. It's timeless, it has no clock."
"A game with a lot of lines, it seems to me, would
come out of a culture that's in a state of totalitarianism.
Football, of course, was most popular during the Vict
nam war, when Nixon was the number-one fan."
"Football doesn't involve much athletic ability. I know
if I say this in Nebraska it could be tough. But the aver
age football player is only intended to be en obstacle. If
you don't bclicvf this, watch a pro game and watch them
try to pick up a fumble.
Ford obstacle
"President Ford was the classic example of a center
on a single-wing football team, which meant his job was to
get rid of that ball and be an obstacle, which seems to
define what his whole political career was like."
Political football may be a strange subject from an
English professor probably best known for his book
Murder and the Mean Streets, an analysis of Raymond
Chandler's detective novels.
Grella is a scholar of popular culture and his submachine-gun
mind emptied a full clip of ideas into the infor
mal pre-lunch meeting.
"My interests are mostly aesthetic and literary, and if
I'm doing detective fiction or baseball in American cul
ture or whatever, it has to be the same sort of study as if I
were teaching Milton or Henry James. I'm interested in
the way things are alike, rather than the way they're
different."
Grella read a paper on Edgar Allen Foe's detective
stories, The Murders of the Rue Morgue and The Pur
loined Letter, giving evidence that in both stories the
actual criminal was the dective hero and that the whole
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George Grdla: "Football doesn't involve much llRQ LOI olo
athletic ability. I know if I say this in Nebraska it '
could be tough."
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thing was one of Poe's literary hoaxes.
Psychology
He showed a video tape oF baseball psychology he
made for a New York public television station, with
scenes such as the brooding, introspective outfielder read
ing Ulysses while being pelted by fly balls.
Grella analyzed present trends in literature. "Because
we're approaching the year 2000, 1 think we're starting to
repeat what people were thinking about in the 1900's.
In those days people stopped building permanent struc
tures because they thought the world was going to end.
What we do is all write books about it."
"I dont like pimping for despair," Grella said. IBs
own writings arc about subjects such as murder mysteries
or sports, and he said this has made it harder to get other
scholars to take him seriously.
"I think I've had my problems with that, quite frank
ly," Grella said. "I think there are still people in my
department who think I probably do these things be
cause I'm dumb." .
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