Morganmobile: Sports and Games
On April 10, 1968, the eighty-one-year-old poet, longtime Brooklynite, and lifelong baseball fan Marianne Moore threw out the first pitch at the New York Yankees’ season opener against the Los Angeles Angels. A poem she published seven years earlier posits a plain-spoken analogy between her metier and the national pastime: “Writing is exciting / and baseball is like writing. / You can never tell with either / how it will go / or what you will do.”
Unidentified photographer, Marianne Moore with baseball, Yankee Stadium, 1968. Gelatin silver print with additions by hand. Purchase as the gift of Christopher Scholz, 2017.371