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A member of the Early Risers Base Ball Club of Detroit drives the ball with authority during a vintage baseball game last weekend. The game is played using 1860s rules, uniforms and equipment.
Texture: The Daily Texture and Topaz Impression
HSS
Base Ball Today!
Junction City, Kansas, 1896
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
April 27, 2021
Kansas City, Missouri
For macromonday's theme Baseball. A ball filled with chewing-gum. This little machine is only an inch (3 cm) tall.
I have to admit my daughter gave me the idea for this shot.
This poor old building used to have another sign behind this one. The building caught fire and the back wall has collapsed. There is no roof and I doubt any floors. Salt Lake Chocolates are still in business as far as I know. This sign will be gone sooner than later. Glad I caught it.
Pocatello, Idaho
Sign reads:
SWEETS
SALT LAKE
CHOCOLATES
and the tagline "Are Always Appreciated".
This poor old building used to have another sign behind this one. The building caught fire and the back wall has collapsed. There is no roof and I doubt any floors. Salt Lake Chocolates are still in business as far as I know. This sign will be gone sooner than later. Glad I caught it.
Pocatello, Idaho
Lara la joueuse de base-ball de l'espace.
Lara the space baseball Girl.
Lara het ruimtehonkbalmeisje.
L’art urbain:
L’art descend dans la rue, se met en contact avec le public et devient acteur de la vie urbaine en créant un signe identitaire de ralliement et de convivialité dans l’espace commun, ouvert à tous et proposé à chacun.
Streetart:
Art takes to the streets, gets in touch with the public and becomes an actor in urban life by creating an identity sign of rallying and conviviality in the common space, open to all and offered to everyone.
straatkunst:
Kunst gaat de straat op, komt in contact met het publiek en wordt een acteur in het stadsleven door een identiteitsteken van rally en gezelligheid te creëren in de gemeenschappelijke ruimte, open voor iedereen en aangeboden aan iedereen.
Photo © gauthier.msr
Credits Mansport
MANSPORT_-_Christian_pose_5
Christian pose pack.
Contains: 6 animations, baseball bat and ball.
the Nexus Event
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My Grandson ...CJ ...
9-11 year old team ..
When on the field, he goes into full baseball concentration ...
He can hit home runs, and also he can run like a deer ..
BTW : He can get muddy too .....
I am excited for him, to see what the final season, brings him ... He is one, of the younger on his team ... ( but he thinks he is 6 foot tall ... )
He pitches, every great once in a while, and plays second base on a regular basis ... He is growing up so quickly ...
Well ........ GO TEAM !!!!!
~ Trust Me, Has Two Sisters That Cheer Him ON ..
Have a Wonderful Day Ahead Friends ..
title
July dusk
(LUMIX G3)
Milan. Italy. 2005. 0.9 / 6
(Today's photo. It's unpublished.)
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Base Ball Bear --short hair
Twitter .
John Lennon who lived in New York. He participated in the Vietnam anti-war movement and was marked by the FBI. There is still light in his work. This is the reason why the light does not go out.
ニューヨークに住んでいたジョンレノンは、ベトナム反戦運動に参加し、FBIにマークされてました。彼の作品に光がこもって今でも消えない理由はここにあります
#誰かの声をあなたの声に #Someonesvoicetoyourvoice #アーティストの真価を今 #Thetruevalueoftheartistnow #ジョンレノン #JohnLennon
Youtube更新しました😃
#基礎疾患ありで感染したら #好酸球性肺炎 #新型コロナウィルス #ヌーカラ #レルベア #ファイザー #喘息 #PCR検査 #発熱 #好酸球性肺炎でコロナに感染したら #医療従事者の皆様に感謝ですありがとうございます #基礎疾患好酸球性肺炎
基礎疾患ありでコロナに感染したら？
＝どのような症状で、どうのように沈静化するのか＝
●当たり前ですが、ここで話すことは完全に私個人のケースなので必ず病院へ行ってください。
●たぶん基礎疾患を持っている方は現在不安かと思います。
●ここの話は参考程度に留めていただき、まずは発熱したらPCR検査を必ず受けてください。そして必ず病院で診察を受けてください。
年齢 ５３才
基礎疾患名 好酸球性肺炎
１ 毎月ヌーカラ（ステロイドの皮下注射）を注入
２ 毎晩レルベアも吸引
３ 1ヶ月に1回、隣の市の大きな病院へ通院。
動画中、2カ月に一度となっていますが間違いです。
４ 昨年、７月、８月 ワクチン接種済み
病状
●ひたすら３９度内で発熱。三日間ほど。解熱剤で落としては上がり、落としては上がり、の繰り返し。発熱中は、身体中の節々が痛い。これは発熱時の症状と思われます。
●咳はまったくでなかった。恐らくワクチンのおかげ。
●五感に異常はありませんでした。動画のように声が掠れました。
●髪の毛がたくさん抜けるという話でしたが、全く自分は抜けませんでした。二日間洗わずにいて、３日目に洗ったから、たくさん抜けたように見えますが、普通の病気した時と同じように、溜まった洗髪によって、髪が抜けているだけだと思われます。
●食事は熱が下がれば食べられる。なので、下がった時に爆食いしてくださいね😃たぶん栄養をつけないと良くならない気がします。
⭐️最重要メッセージをみっつ⭐️
ひとつめ
動画中、怒りに任せていたので伝え忘れました。
医療関係者のみなさん、ありがとうございました。自分はワクチン接種していなかったら間違いなくこの動画を上げられていません。本当に感謝しています。ありがとうございます。🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
ふたつめ
恐らくワクチン接種を2回、きちんと済ませていたから重症化しませんでした。
まだ受けていない方は早めに済ませ、3回目もきちんと受けましょう。
みっつめ
コロナは風邪だと平然と言う方へ。
コロナは決して風邪ではありません。風邪なわけねーだろ、ボケ！！！！😡💢👊
最後に。
２月２８日に発症してからずっと家の中に隔離されている間、窓の外には春の陽光が日に日に増してゆきました。柔らかい日差しです。
ふと思い出したのが、映画ゴッドファーザーのマーロンブランドでした。自宅のトマト畑で孫と戯れているうちに亡くなるのですが、彼が最後に何を感じたのかと聞かれたら僕は、光を感じながら逝っただろうと答えます。
今回、長い期間自宅にいていろいろ自分に向き合える時間をもらえました。
今までは自分の死はどうなるんだろうと曖昧だったのですが、今は答えが出せました。
わがままを聞いてもらえるならば、自分は本を読みながら死にたいなと思えるようになりました。どんな死が理想かなんて、悪い妄想は良くないのかもしれませんが、今まで想像すらできなかったんですよね。でも、今ははっきり自分の死を描けます。
僕は、本を読みながら死にたい。
今回、病を患って、自分に向き合う時間を持ててよかったです。
周囲のみなさんには大変ご迷惑をお掛けしましたが、一皮剥けて、また一歩前に進む心構えができました。ありがとうございました。
※この動画は３月４日に収録し、１１日夜１０時に公開しました。
Important Notices.
I have relaxed the following conditions.
I will distribute my T-shirt to the world for free.
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Latest news.
The following my T-shirt. Free distribution.
Due to the influence of corona # the method of transportation varies from country to country.
1/25
The first one has been decided.
It's a German.
m.flickr.com/photos/ute_kluge/favorites/
I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.
:)
December 3 # 2020. shipped.
It is a sea mail. It takes 2 to 3 months.
2/25
The second is a Thai woman.
youpic.com/photographer/Abbozzo/
I asked her to pick it up.
:)
December 10 # 2020. shipped.
It is a sea mail. It takes 2 to 3 months.
3/25
The third is a Mexican woman.
She has supported me since the days of fotolog.
She gave me directions.
Thank you.
:)
Shipped on December 10 # 2020.
It is EMS. Maybe it will arrive within 1 to 2 months.
4/25
The fourth is a woman from the Republic of Serbia.
youpic.com/photographer/IvanaPopov/
Shipped on December 14 # 2020.
It is a sea mail. Maybe it will arrive within 2 to 3 months.
:)
5/25
The fifth is an Indonesian man.
www.flickr.com/photos/33836533@N04/
December 24 # 2020. shipped.
It is EMS. Maybe it will arrive within 1 to 2 months.
6/25
The sixth is from France.
youpic.com/image/18158054/ombre-chinoise-by-ce-pe
www.flickr.com/photos/191604817@N04/
January 7 # 2021.
I shipped it.
:)
7/25
The seventh person is also from France.
www.flickr.com/photos/151630891@N07/
www.flickr.com/people/liveworkcreate/
January 7 # 2021.
I shipped it.
:)
8/25
The eighth person is from Romania.
It will be shipped in January 2021.
:)
9/25
The ninth person is from Japan. He is 16 years old
Award history
2017 Oguni Town Photo Contest 2 Division
2018 EPSON meet up selection Data Category Excellence Award
2020 Kumamoto Takafumiren First Half Photo Contest Excellence Award
Web Photo Contest Sponsoring Maker Award
10/25
The tenth person is from Brazil.
www.flickr.com/photos/mangelo/
It will be shipped in February 2021.
:)
11/25
11th person is from USA.
youpic.com/photographer/HeathBrunner/
www.flickr.com/photos/181948650@N04/
It will be shipped in February 2021.
:)
12/25
The 13th person is from Italy.
www.flickr.com/photos/122700703@N05/
youpic.com/photographer/raffadepa2019/
cacciatoredisogniblog.wordpress.com
It will be shipped in February 2021.
13/25
The 14th person is from Russia.
www.flickr.com/photos/183731920@N08/
youpic.com/photographer/Andjey/
It will be shipped in March 2021.
14/25
The 14th person is from the Philippines.
www.flickr.com/photos/44681455@N00/
youpic.com/photographer/Stitch/
Shipped on November 11, 2021.
Mitsu.
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Notice regarding "Lot No.402_”.
From now on # I will host "Lot No.402_".
The work of Leonardo da Vinci who was sleeping.
That is the number when it was put up for auction.
No sign was written on the work.
So this work couldn't conclude that it was his work.
However # as a result of various appraisals # it was exposed to the sun.
A work that no one notices. A work that speaks quietly without a title.
I will continue to strive to provide it to many people in various ways.
October 24 # 2020 by Mitsu - Nakagawa.
Mitsu Nakagawa belong to Lot No. 402 _.Copyright©︎2021 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.
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Profile.
In November 2014 # we caught the attention of the party selected to undertake the publicity for a mobile phone that changed the face of the world with just a single model # and will conclude a confidentiality agreement with them.
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Interviews and novels.
About my book.
I published a book a long time ago.
At that time # I uploaded my interview as a PDF on the internet.
Its Japanese and English.
I will publish it for free.
For details # I explained to the Amazon site.
How to write a novel.
How to take a picture.
A sense of distance to the work.
All of these have something in common.
I wrote down what I felt and left it.
I hope my text will be read by many people.
Thank you.
Mitsushiro.
1 Interview in English
2 novels. unforgettable 'English version.(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
3 Interview Japanese version
4 novels. unforgettable ' JPN version.
5 A streamlined trajectory. only Japanese.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
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iBooks. Electronic Publishing. It is free now.
0.about the iBooks.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
1.unforgettable '(ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216576828?ls=1&...
2.unforgettable '(JNP.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...
3. Streamlined trajectory.(For Japanese only.)
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My Novel : Unforgettable'
(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
Synopsis
Kei Kitami # who is aiming for a university # meets Kaori Uemura # an event companion who is 6 years older than her on SNS.
Kaori's dream of coming to Tokyo is to become friends with famous artists.
For that purpose # the presence of radio station producer Ryo Osawa was necessary.
Osawa talks to Kaori during the live radio broadcast.
"I have a wife and a child # but I want to see you."
Kay's classmate # Rika Sanjo # who thinks of him # was exploring Kaori's trends. .. .. .. ..
Synopsis.
Kei Kitami who aims at university.
A 6 year old older event companion woman. Meet Kaori Uemura on SNS.
The dream of Kaori who has moved to Tokyo.
It is to be a friend of the artist.
The producer of the radio station for that. The existence of Ryo Osawa was necessary.
Live on the radio.Osawa talks to Kaori.
"I have a wife and a child # but I want to see you."
Kei’s classmate Rika Sanzyou who is thinking of him.
She was searching for Kaori.
Mitsushiro Nakagawa
All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .
images.
U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related
Main story
There are two reasons why a person faces the sea.
One # to enjoy a slice of shine in the sea like children bubbling over in the beach.
The other # to brush the dust of memory like an old man who misses old days # staring at the shine
quietly.
Those lead to only one meaning though they do not seem to overlap. It’s a rebirth.
I face myself to change tomorrow # a vague day into something certain.
That is the meaning of a rebirth.
I had a very sweet girlfriend when I was 18.
After she left # I knew the meaning of gentleness for the first time and also a true pain of loss. After
she left # how many times did I depend too much on her # doubt her # envy her and keep on telling lies
until I realized it is love?
I wonder whether a nobody like me could have given something to her who was struggling in the
daily life in those days. Giving something is arrogant conceit. It is nothing but self-satisfaction.
I had been thinking about such a thing.
However # I guess what she saw in me was because I had nothing. That‘s why she tried to see
something in me. Perhaps she found a slight possibility in me # a guy filled with ambiguous # unstable
tomorrow. But I wasted days depending too much on her gentleness.
Now I finally can convey how I felt in those days when we met.
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Fin.
images.
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related
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Title of my book : unforgettable'
Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now.
ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
in Amazon.
www.amazon.co.jp/Unforgettable’-Mitsushiro-Nakagawa/dp/...
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The schedule of the next novel.
Still would stand all time. (Unforgettable '2)
(It will not go away forever)
Please give me some more time. That is Japanese.
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Exhibition in 2023.
theme.
Turing back the time.
The location will be one of the following.
1
DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art 1st attached gallery.
2
place. Tokyo Big Site.
Sponsoring. Design festa.
images.
ONE OK ROCK… Heartache
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My Works.
1 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48072442376/in/dateposted...
2 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48078949821/in/dateposted...
3 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48085863356/in/dateposted...
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Do you want to hear my voice?
:)
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About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. First type.
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About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. Second type.
3
About when I started Fotolog. Architect 's point of view.
4
Why did not you have a camera so far?
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What is the coolest thing? The photo is as it is.
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About the current YouTube bar. I also want to tell # I want to leave.
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About Japanese photographers. Japanese YouTube bar is Pistols.
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The composition of the photograph is sensibility. Meet the designers in Milan. Two questions.
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What is a good composition? What is a bad composition?
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What is the time to point the camera? It is slow if you are looking into the viewfinder or display.
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Family photos. I can not take pictures with others. The inside of the subject.
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About YouTube 's photographer. Camera technology etc. Sensibility is polished by reading books.
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About the Japanese newspaper. A picture of a good newspaper is Reuters. If you continue to look at useless photographs # it will be useless.
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About Japanese photographers. About the exhibition.
Summary. I wrote a novel etc. What I want to tell the most.
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I talked about how to make a work.
About work production 1/2
About work production 2/2
1 Photo exhibition up to that point. Did you want to go?
2 Well # what is an exhibition that you want to visit even if you go there?
3 Challenge to exhibit one work every month before opening a solo exhibition at the Harajuku Design Festa.
4 works are materials and silhouettes. Similar to fashion.
5 Who is your favorite artist? What is it? Make it clear.
6 Creating a collage is exactly the same as taking photos. As I wrote in the interview # it is the same as writing a novel.
7 I want to show it to someone # but I do not make a piece to show it. Aim for the work you want to decorate your own room as in the photo.
8 What is copycat? Nowadays # it is suspected to be beaten. There is something called Mimesis?
kotobank.jp/word/Mimesis-139464
9 What is Individuality? What is originality?
www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/
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Explanation of composition. 2
1.Composition explanation 2 ... 1/4
2.Composition explanation 2 ... 2/4
3.Composition Explanation 2 ... 3/4
4.Composition Explanation 2 ... 4/4
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My shutter feeling.
Today's photo.
It is a photo taken from Eurostar.
This video is an explanation.
I went to Milan in 2005.
At that time # I went from Milan to Venice.
We took Eurostar into the transportation.
This photo was not taken from a very fast Eurostar.
When I changed the track # I took a picture at the moment I slowed down.
Is there a Japanese beside you?
Please have my video translated.
:)
In the Eurostar to Venice . 2005. shot ... 1 / 2
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Miles Davis sheet 1955-1976.
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flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/
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instagram.
www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/
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Pinterest.
www.pinterest.jp/MitsushiroNakagawa/
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YouPic
youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/
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twitter.
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facebook.
www.facebook.com/mitsushiro.nakagawa
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Amazon.
www.amazon.co.jp/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHSKI3YMYPYE5UE...
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My statistics. (As of May 11 # 2021)
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Japanese is the following.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
Title of my book unforgettable' Mitsushiro Nakagawa Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
Mitsu Nakagawa belong to Lot No. 204 _ . Copyright©︎2020 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.
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タイトル
７月の夕暮れ
( LUMIX G3)
ミラノ。 イタリア。２００５。 ０．９ / 6
(今日の写真。それは未発表です。)
images
Base Ball Bear - short hair
Youtube更新しました😃
#基礎疾患ありで感染したら #好酸球性肺炎 #新型コロナウィルス #ヌーカラ #レルベア #ファイザー #喘息 #PCR検査 #発熱 #好酸球性肺炎でコロナに感染したら #医療従事者の皆様に感謝ですありがとうございます #基礎疾患好酸球性肺炎
基礎疾患ありでコロナに感染したら？
＝どのような症状で、どうのように沈静化するのか＝
●当たり前ですが、ここで話すことは完全に私個人のケースなので必ず病院へ行ってください。
●たぶん基礎疾患を持っている方は現在不安かと思います。
●ここの話は参考程度に留めていただき、まずは発熱したらPCR検査を必ず受けてください。そして必ず病院で診察を受けてください。
年齢 ５３才
基礎疾患名 好酸球性肺炎
１ 毎月ヌーカラ（ステロイドの皮下注射）を注入
２ 毎晩レルベアも吸引
３ 1ヶ月に1回、隣の市の大きな病院へ通院。
動画中、2カ月に一度となっていますが間違いです。
４ 昨年、７月、８月 ワクチン接種済み
病状
●ひたすら３９度内で発熱。三日間ほど。解熱剤で落としては上がり、落としては上がり、の繰り返し。発熱中は、身体中の節々が痛い。これは発熱時の症状と思われます。
●咳はまったくでなかった。恐らくワクチンのおかげ。
●五感に異常はありませんでした。動画のように声が掠れました。
●髪の毛がたくさん抜けるという話でしたが、全く自分は抜けませんでした。二日間洗わずにいて、３日目に洗ったから、たくさん抜けたように見えますが、普通の病気した時と同じように、溜まった洗髪によって、髪が抜けているだけだと思われます。
●食事は熱が下がれば食べられる。なので、下がった時に爆食いしてくださいね😃たぶん栄養をつけないと良くならない気がします。
⭐️最重要メッセージをみっつ⭐️
ひとつめ
動画中、怒りに任せていたので伝え忘れました。
医療関係者のみなさん、ありがとうございました。自分はワクチン接種していなかったら間違いなくこの動画を上げられていません。本当に感謝しています。ありがとうございます。🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
ふたつめ
恐らくワクチン接種を2回、きちんと済ませていたから重症化しませんでした。
まだ受けていない方は早めに済ませ、3回目もきちんと受けましょう。
みっつめ
コロナは風邪だと平然と言う方へ。
コロナは決して風邪ではありません。風邪なわけねーだろ、ボケ！！！！😡💢👊
最後に。
２月２８日に発症してからずっと家の中に隔離されている間、窓の外には春の陽光が日に日に増してゆきました。柔らかい日差しです。
ふと思い出したのが、映画ゴッドファーザーのマーロンブランドでした。自宅のトマト畑で孫と戯れているうちに亡くなるのですが、彼が最後に何を感じたのかと聞かれたら僕は、光を感じながら逝っただろうと答えます。
今回、長い期間自宅にいていろいろ自分に向き合える時間をもらえました。
今までは自分の死はどうなるんだろうと曖昧だったのですが、今は答えが出せました。
わがままを聞いてもらえるならば、自分は本を読みながら死にたいなと思えるようになりました。どんな死が理想かなんて、悪い妄想は良くないのかもしれませんが、今まで想像すらできなかったんですよね。でも、今ははっきり自分の死を描けます。
僕は、本を読みながら死にたい。
今回、病を患って、自分に向き合う時間を持ててよかったです。
周囲のみなさんには大変ご迷惑をお掛けしましたが、一皮剥けて、また一歩前に進む心構えができました。ありがとうございました。
※この動画は３月４日に収録し、１１日夜１０時に公開しました。
次の小説のイメージ。
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
（いつまでもなくならないだろう）
重要なお知らせ。
僕は以下の条件を緩和します。
僕はTシャツを無料で世界中へ配布します。
m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50656401427/in/dateposted-p...
m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50613367691/in/dateposted-p...
最新のお知らせ。
以下の僕のTシャツ。無料配布。
コロナの影響で、運送方法は国によって変わります。
1/25
一人目が決まりました。
それはドイツの人です。
m.flickr.com/photos/ute_kluge/favorites/
僕は心から感謝します。ありがとう。
:)
２０２０年１２月３日。発送しました。
船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。
2/25
二人目はタイの女性です。
youpic.com/photographer/Abbozzo/
僕は彼女へ受け取って欲しいとお願いしました。
:)
２０２０年１２月１０日。発送しました。
船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。
3/25
3人目はメキシコの女性です。
彼女はfotologの頃からずっと僕を支えてくれました。
彼女は僕の道案内をしてくれました。
ありがとう。
:)
２０２０年１２月１０日発送しました。
EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。
4/25
4人目は、セルビア共和国の女性です。
youpic.com/photographer/IvanaPopov/
２０２０年１２月１４日発送しました。
船便です。たぶん２ヶ月から３ヶ月以内で到着します。
:)
5/25
５人目は、インドネシアの男性です。
www.flickr.com/photos/33836533@N04/
２０２０年１２月２４日。発送しました。
EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。
１月８日。到着しました。
6/25
6人目は、フランスの方です。
youpic.com/image/18158054/ombre-chinoise-by-ce-pe
www.flickr.com/photos/191604817@N04/
２０２１年１月７日。
僕は発送しました。
:)
7/25
7人目も、フランスの方です。
www.flickr.com/photos/151630891@N07/
www.flickr.com/people/liveworkcreate/
２０２１年１月７日。
僕は発送しました。
:)
8/25
８人目の 方はルーマニアの方です。
2021年１月中に発送します。
:)
9/25
9人目は日本の方です。16歳です。
受賞歴
2017 小国町フォトコンテスト2部門
2018 EPSONmeet up selectionデータ部門優秀賞
2020 熊本高文連前期写真コンテスト優秀賞
Webフォトコンテスト協賛メーカー賞
10/25
10人目は、ブラジルの方です。
www.flickr.com/photos/mangelo/
２０２１年２月中に発送します。
:)
11/25
11人目は、アメリカの方です。
youpic.com/photographer/HeathBrunner/
www.flickr.com/photos/181948650@N04/
２０２１年２月中に発送します。
:)
12/25
12人目は、イタリアの方です。
www.flickr.com/photos/122700703@N05/
youpic.com/photographer/raffadepa2019/
cacciatoredisogniblog.wordpress.com
２０２１年２月中に発送します。
13/25
13人目は、 ロシアの方です。
www.flickr.com/photos/183731920@N08/
youpic.com/photographer/Andjey/
２０２１年３月中に発送します。
14/25
14人目は、フィリピンの方です。
www.flickr.com/photos/44681455@N00/
youpic.com/photographer/Stitch/
２０２１年１１月１１日に発送しました。
Mitsu.
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” Lot No.402_ ” に関するお知らせ。
今後、僕は、” Lot No.402_ ”を主催します。
このロットナンバーは、眠っていたレオナルドダヴィンチの作品がオークションにかけらた際に付されたものです。
作品にはサインなどがいっさい記されていなかったため、彼の作品だと断定できませんでした。
しかし、様々な鑑定の結果、陽の光を浴びました。
誰にも気づかれない作品。肩書がなくとも静かに語りかける作品。
僕はこれから様々な形で、多くの皆様に提供できるよう努めてゆきます。
2020年10月24日 by Mitsu - Nakagawa.
Copyright©︎2021 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.
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プロフィール
2014年11月、たった1機種で世界を塗り替えた携帯電話の広告を請け負った選考者の目に留まり、秘密保持同意書を結ぶ。
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
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インタビューと小説。
僕の本について。
僕は、昔に本を出版しました。
その際に、僕のインタビューをPDFでネット上へアップロードしていました。
その日本語と英語。
僕は、無料でを公開します。
詳細は、アマゾンのサイトへ解説しました。
小説の書き方。
写真の撮影方法。
作品への距離感。
これらはすべて共通項があります。
僕は、僕が感じたことを文章にして、残しました。
僕のテキストが多くの人に読んでもらえることを望みます。
ありがとう。
Mitsushiro.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
１ インタビュー 英語版
２ 小説。unforgettable’ 英語版。
３ インタビュー 日本語版
４ 小説。unforgettable’ 日本語版。(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)
(四百字詰め原稿用紙４５６枚)
あらすじ
大学を目指している北見ケイは、SNS上で、6歳年上のイベントコンパニオン、上村香織に出会う。
上京してきた香織の夢は、有名なアーティストの友達になるためだ。
そのためにはラジオ局のプロデューサー、大沢亮の存在が必要だった。
大沢は、ラジオの生放送中、香織へ語りかける。
「僕には妻子がある。しかし、僕は君に会いたいと思っている」
ケイの同級生で、彼を想っている三條里香は、香織の動向を探っていた。。。。。
本編
人が海へ向かう理由には、二つある。
ひとつは、波打ち際ではしゃぐ子供のように、今の瞬間の海の輝きを楽しむこと。
もうひとつは、その輝きを静かに見据えて、過ぎ去った日々を懐かしむ老人のように記憶の埃を払うこと。
二つは重なり合わないようではあるけれども、たったひとつの意味しか生まない。
再生だ。
明日っていう、曖昧な日を確実なものへと変えてゆくために、自分の存在に向き合う。
それが再生の意味だ。
十八歳だった僕には大切な人がいた。
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
５ 流線形の軌跡。 日本語のみ。
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
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iBooks.電子出版。（現在は無料）
0.about the iBooks.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
1.unforgettable’ ( ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216576828?ls=1&...
For Japanese only.
2.unforgettable’ ( JNP.ver.)(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)
itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...
3.流線形の軌跡。
itunes.apple.com/us/book/%E6%B5%81%E7%B7%9A%E5%BD%A2%E3%8...
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僕の小説。英語版
My Novel Unforgettable' (This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
Mitsushiro Nakagawa
All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .
1/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24577016535/in/dateposted...
2/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24209330259/in/dateposted...
3/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/23975215274/in/dateposted...
4/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24515964952/in/dateposted...
5/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24276473749/in/dateposted...
6/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24548895082/in/dateposted...
7/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24594603711/in/dateposted...
8/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24588215562/in/dateposted...
9/9
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24100804163/in/dateposted...
Fin.
images.
U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related
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Title of my book : unforgettable'
Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now.
ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
in Amazon.
www.amazon.co.jp/Unforgettable’-Mitsushiro-Nakagawa/dp/...
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次の小説の予定。
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
（いつまでもなくならないだろう）
もう少し時間をください。それは日本語です。
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２０２３年の展示。
テーマ。
Turing back the time.
場所は、以下のいずれかを予定。
１
DIC川村記念美術館 第１付属ギャラリー。
２
東京ビッグサイト。
Sponsoring. Design festa.
images.
ONE OK ROCK … Heartache
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僕の作品。
1 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48072442376/in/dateposted...
2 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48078949821/in/dateposted...
3 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48085863356/in/dateposted...
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あなたは僕の声を聞きたいですか？
:)
1
フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。１種類目。
2
フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。２種類目。
3
Fotologを始めた時について。 建築家の視点。
4
なぜ、今までカメラを手にしなかったのか？
5
何が一番かっこいいのか？ 写真はありのままに。
6
現在のユーチューバーについて。僕も伝え、残したい。
7
日本人の写真家について。日本のユーチューバーはピストルズ。
8
写真の構図は、感性。ミラノのデザイナーに会って。二つの質問。
9
良い構図とは？ 悪い構図とは？
10
カメラを向ける時とは？ ファインダーやディスプレイを覗いていては遅い。
11
家族写真。他人では撮れない。被写体の内面。
12
ユーチューブの写真家について。カメラの技術等。感性は、本を読むことで磨く。
13
日本の新聞について。良い新聞の写真はロイター。ダメな写真を見続けるとダメになる。
14
日本の写真家について。その展示について。
まとめ。僕が書いた小説など。僕が最も伝えたいこと。
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作品制作について 1/2
作品制作について 2/2
１ それまでの写真展。自分は行きたいと思ったか？
２ じゃ、自分が足を運んででも行きたい展示とは何か？
３ 原宿デザインフェスタで個展を開くまでに、毎月ひとつの作品を展示することにチャレンジ。
４ 作品とは、素材とシルエット。ファッションと似ている。
５ 自分が好きなアーティストは誰か？ どんなものなのか？ そこをはっきりさせる。
６ コラージュの作成も写真の撮り方と全く同じ。インタビューに書いたように小説の書き方とも同じ。
７ 誰かに見せたい、見せるがために作品は作らない。写真と同じように自分の部屋に飾りたい作品を目指す。
８ パクリとは何か？ 昨今、叩かれるパクリ疑惑。ミメーシスとは？
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ミメーシス
https://kotobank.jp/word/ミメーシス-139464
９ 個性とはなにか？ オリジナリティってなに？
おまけ 眞子さまについて
という流れです。
お時間がある方は是非聴いてください。
:)
www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/
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構図の解説２
1.構図の解説２ ... 1/4
2.構図の解説２ ... 2/4
3.構図の解説２ ... 3/4
4.構図の解説２ ... 4/4
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僕のシャッター感覚
In the Eurostar to Venice . 2005. shot ... 1 / 2
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/49127115021/in/dateposted...
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Miles Davis sheet 1955-1976.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
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flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/
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YouTube.
www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/
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instagram.
www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/
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Pinterest.
www.pinterest.jp/MitsushiroNakagawa/
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YouPic
youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/
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fotolog
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twitter.
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facebook.
www.facebook.com/mitsushiro.nakagawa
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Amazon.
www.amazon.co.jp/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHSKI3YMYPYE5UE...
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僕の統計。（2021年5月11日現在）
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Japanese is the following.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
Title of my book unforgettable' Mitsushiro Nakagawa Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
Mitsu Nakagawa belong to Lot no.204_ . Copyright©︎2020 Lot no.204_ All rights reserved.
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” Lot No.402_ ” に関するお知らせ。
今後、僕は、” Lot No.402_ ”を主催します。
このロットナンバーは、眠っていたレオナルドダヴィンチの作品がオークションにかけらた際に付されたものです。
作品にはサインなどがいっさい記されていなかったため、彼の作品だと断定できませんでした。
しかし、様々な鑑定の結果、陽の光を浴びました。
誰にも気づかれない作品。肩書がなくとも静かに語りかける作品。
僕はこれから様々な形で、多くの皆様に提供できるよう努めてゆきます。
2020年10月24日 by Mitsu - Nakagawa.
Copyright©︎2020 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.
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Youtube更新しました😃
#基礎疾患ありで感染したら #好酸球性肺炎 #新型コロナウィルス #ヌーカラ #レルベア #ファイザー #喘息 #PCR検査 #発熱 #好酸球性肺炎でコロナに感染したら #医療従事者の皆様に感謝ですありがとうございます #基礎疾患好酸球性肺炎
基礎疾患ありでコロナに感染したら？
＝どのような症状で、どうのように沈静化するのか＝
●当たり前ですが、ここで話すことは完全に私個人のケースなので必ず病院へ行ってください。
●たぶん基礎疾患を持っている方は現在不安かと思います。
●ここの話は参考程度に留めていただき、まずは発熱したらPCR検査を必ず受けてください。そして必ず病院で診察を受けてください。
年齢 ５３才
基礎疾患名 好酸球性肺炎
１ 毎月ヌーカラ（ステロイドの皮下注射）を注入
２ 毎晩レルベアも吸引
３ 1ヶ月に1回、隣の市の大きな病院へ通院。
動画中、2カ月に一度となっていますが間違いです。
４ 昨年、７月、８月 ワクチン接種済み
病状
●ひたすら３９度内で発熱。三日間ほど。解熱剤で落としては上がり、落としては上がり、の繰り返し。発熱中は、身体中の節々が痛い。これは発熱時の症状と思われます。
●咳はまったくでなかった。恐らくワクチンのおかげ。
●五感に異常はありませんでした。動画のように声が掠れました。
●髪の毛がたくさん抜けるという話でしたが、全く自分は抜けませんでした。二日間洗わずにいて、３日目に洗ったから、たくさん抜けたように見えますが、普通の病気した時と同じように、溜まった洗髪によって、髪が抜けているだけだと思われます。
●食事は熱が下がれば食べられる。なので、下がった時に爆食いしてくださいね😃たぶん栄養をつけないと良くならない気がします。
⭐️最重要メッセージをみっつ⭐️
ひとつめ
動画中、怒りに任せていたので伝え忘れました。
医療関係者のみなさん、ありがとうございました。自分はワクチン接種していなかったら間違いなくこの動画を上げられていません。本当に感謝しています。ありがとうございます。🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
ふたつめ
恐らくワクチン接種を2回、きちんと済ませていたから重症化しませんでした。
まだ受けていない方は早めに済ませ、3回目もきちんと受けましょう。
みっつめ
コロナは風邪だと平然と言う方へ。
コロナは決して風邪ではありません。風邪なわけねーだろ、ボケ！！！！😡💢👊
最後に。
２月２８日に発症してからずっと家の中に隔離されている間、窓の外には春の陽光が日に日に増してゆきました。柔らかい日差しです。
ふと思い出したのが、映画ゴッドファーザーのマーロンブランドでした。自宅のトマト畑で孫と戯れているうちに亡くなるのですが、彼が最後に何を感じたのかと聞かれたら僕は、光を感じながら逝っただろうと答えます。
今回、長い期間自宅にいていろいろ自分に向き合える時間をもらえました。
今までは自分の死はどうなるんだろうと曖昧だったのですが、今は答えが出せました。
わがままを聞いてもらえるならば、自分は本を読みながら死にたいなと思えるようになりました。どんな死が理想かなんて、悪い妄想は良くないのかもしれませんが、今まで想像すらできなかったんですよね。でも、今ははっきり自分の死を描けます。
僕は、本を読みながら死にたい。
今回、病を患って、自分に向き合う時間を持ててよかったです。
周囲のみなさんには大変ご迷惑をお掛けしましたが、一皮剥けて、また一歩前に進む心構えができました。ありがとうございました。
※この動画は３月４日に収録し、１１日夜１０時に公開しました。
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2005 New Tokyo International Airport.
(Nikon coolpix 8700)
Narita City. Chiba prefecture. Japan. 2005. 1 / 20
(Today's photo. It's unpublished.)
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Base Ball Bear --short hair
ベボベのPVに触発されて、速攻で小説（掌編）を作りました😃タイトルは『夏のはじまりは、すりガラスの向こうに』です😃
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動画はかなり古いです。下記のテキストが最新版になります。かなり加筆修正したので最終稿とします。
バージョンは3月18日、18時36分です。
５分ほどで読み終えてしまうと思うので、電車時間などにどうぞ😃
初稿(最初期)は以下にあります。小説を書きたいと思ってる方は参考にどうぞ😃
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小説（掌編） 【 夏のはじまりは、すりガラスの向こうに 】
あらすじ
遠藤 シュン 22才と、同級生、関口香奈のお話。
シュンは商社へ就職し、7月からオーストラリアへ。海外赴任前に実家へ帰る。
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7月の夕暮れは、すりガラスの向こうのように霞んでしまう。真夏に向かっていろんなものが鮮やかに色を放つというのに、夕暮れによって光を失うと精彩は失われ、描いた絵にうっかり落とした水滴のようにじゃみてしまう。
閉館間際の図書館の窓の外に目を落とした遠藤シュンは、しばらくの間、ぼんやり夕暮れを眺めていた。
シュンは、７月から日本を離れ、オーストラリアの東部へ向かう。就職した商社が、これからの水素社会のために、日本へ輸入を計画しているからだ。シュンは、既に動き出している現地スタッフに混じり、新しいメンバーとして参加する。採用された中でシュンが特に優秀だったわけではなく、面接の際、「いきなり出向となったら君はどうする？」と訊かれ、つい調子に乗って「がんばります」と快活に答えたからのようだった。
そして７月から新天地へ向かう。明日、成田空港で１３時に待ち合わせている。上司の大山は、「向こうへ到着してからも隔離だから、まぁちょっと大変だけど」と大きなお腹を揺らして笑っていた。そんな語尾に釣られて、へつらった笑顔で返す自分が嫌になる。大人になると失うことも得ることも同時に起こるのかもしれない。
静まり返った本棚の連続に目を移して、シュンは昔聞いたポップソングを思い出していた。
— たくさん失う ー 色も褪せてゆくー
就職し、仕事を得られた安堵と同時に、何かを失ってしまった。自分の手で切り開こうとする、曖昧だけど確実な未来への一歩と、幼い頃、真夏の木陰で食べたアイスクリームの淡い記憶をためらいなく引き換えてしまったような喪失感......
シュンは立ち上がって、手にしていた本を棚へ戻した。本は、関口香奈が好きだったものだ。当時はハードカバーだったが、今はもう小ぶりな文庫本に置き換えられている。人気のある本なので、表紙の隅々がかなり痛んでいた。
すっかり静まり返った図書館の気配を背に外へ出た。外気にはまだ強い湿気が残っていた。鬱陶しい夏の始まりだというのに、シュンの胸の内は静かだった。
図書館を出て左へ曲がり、T字路へ差し掛かったところで、シュンは立ち止まった。まっすぐ歩けば、たぶん僕が好きなカレーを作って母が自宅で待っている。でも、右手の横断歩道を渡って、直進したら、香奈の自宅だ。
ー 香奈 ー
立ち止まって、シュンは俯き、胸の内で香奈の名を反芻した。
小学校のとき、中学校のとき、高校生のとき、いつでも当たり前のようにそばにいた香奈を僕はやっぱり大切にしなかったんだ。でもー
でも、本当に大切なことを言葉にしたら、失ってしまうことだってあるじゃないかー 言葉にした途端、すべて色褪せて消えてしまう、そんな想いだってあるじゃないかー
言葉にする勇気ー 僕にはやっぱりなくて、でもきっと香奈はそれを持っていた。運動会の準備でも、高校受験の試験勉強でも、戸惑っている僕の背中を押してくれたのは香奈だった。
クラクションの高い音でシュンは我に返った。シュンが鳴らされたわけではなく、誰かが赤信号を無視して渡ったようだった。別々の大学に進んだ４年間の重みが、シュンの足を止めていた。シュンよりツーランク上の大学へ進んだ後、香奈は、どこか海外の大学へ編入したらしかった。もう、自分が知っている香奈はどこにもいないー
過ぎった思いを払って、シュンは、まっすぐ歩き出した。
玄関を開けた家の奥には、案の定、カレーの匂いが立ち込めていた。
「たくさん作ったからいっぱい食べてねー」
妙に明るい母の声には意味がある。深い意味ではない。シュンがそこそこ有名な商社へ入り込み、かつ、明日からはオーストラリアへ旅立つからだ。シュンの田舎で、商社と言ったらもはやドリカムなのだ。有名無名など無関係。明日から、うちの子は日本を離れるんですよーというだけで、雲の上の存在なのだ。シュンが昨日、ちょっと近所を出歩いただけで、三人のおばさんに話しかけられ、三人共にシュン君はいいねーなどと褒められ、母の存在感を味わう。カレーを食べて、お風呂に入って、早く寝て、さっさとこの場所を離れようー
シュンは硬く目を閉じて寝返りを打ったが、朝まで眠れることはなかった。
「第三ターミナルって異常に遠いよね。遠い場所に作って不便を促す発想は、うちの会社にはないなー、遠藤くん」
額の汗をマスクで拭った大山は、重そうに膨らんでいるジャケットのお腹をやっと前に進ませている。シュンは、適当な笑みで返しながらネクタイを緩めた。寝不足と大山の言葉どおりに使い果たした体力で、気持ちが深く沈んでいた。
「うちが現地で契約しているスタッフが、遠藤くんといっしょに現地入りする。しばらくはスタッフの指示に従って、感染しないように」
ふいに笑顔になった大山は、シュンの背後に向かって声を掛け、手招きした。
振り返ったシュンは、しばらく声を失っていた。大山がシュンの紹介をし、現地スタッフである香奈に関して、簡潔に説明した。ショートヘアの香奈はダフネブルーのTシャツに細身のジーンズ、そして履き込んだスペルガの白いスニーカーといったラフな格好だった。
大山はシュンらを付き合わせると、これから青山の本社まで戻らなければならないからと言って歩き出し、シュンに着いたらメールするように、と笑顔を残して去った。去り際に香奈へ、いろいろご迷惑をお掛けするかもしれませんがよろしくお願いいたしますと、難しい顔で伝えた。香奈は、大山の難しい表情を解きほぐすような丁重な声と笑顔で、「どうにかなりますからー」と答えた。
出発ラウンジへ歩き出しながら、シュンはいった。
「どうしてここに？」
香奈は、立ち止まってやや怒り気味に返した。
「どうしてって、ただの偶然でしょ？」
香奈の言うとおりだった。ただの偶然だ。香奈がここまで仕込んで筋書きを立てられるとも思えないし、そんな意味などないのだからー
手続き済ませてゆっくりしようよと、香奈は再び歩き出しながら言い放った。
シュンも賛成だった。歩きながら話したいけど、歩きながら話せるような軽さは微塵もない。シュンらは、人気の少ないターミナルの中を進んでいった。
手荷物を預け、出国を済ませると、シュンらはラウンジに腰掛け、カップのコーヒーの蓋を開けた。カップはかなり火照っていた。ラウンジの高い天井の隅には、赤い風船が、エアコンのゆるい風に吹かれて揺れていた。子供が手放したんだろうけど、それはいつだったんだろう、シュンはそんな余計なことを考えている自分にイラついた。
香奈は、コーヒーにフーフー息を吹きかけながら、一口啜ると言った。
「きのう、図書館の近くのT字路で立ち止まってたでしょ。私、見てたんだよ」
シュンの胸はどきりと跳ねたが、気づかれぬようさらっといった。
「なんで、見てたの？」
「ひさびさに日本に帰ってきて、家の窓から夕暮れ見てたの。そしたら、見慣れた人影が。シュンかなって思ったけど、まさかいるわけないよねって。でもシュンだった。見てたっていうよりも、目に入ってきたって感じかな」
シュンは長椅子に腰を深く落とし直した。アルミ製の椅子は、エアコンですっかり冷えている。シュンは、香奈の横顔にいった。
「髪、短くしたんだ」
香奈は、目を丸くして応えた。
「興味があるんだ」
シュンは、やや攻撃的な口調の香奈を悟すように言い返した。
「なんで怒ってるの？」
「怒ってなんかないよ」
「いやいや怒ってるじゃん。怒りが滲んでこぼれてるぞ」
「そういうときもあるのよ」
香奈はシュンの問いを適当にあしらって、飛行場内に目を移した。シュンらが乗り込む飛行機は、強い陽射しを浴びて、今、目の前に静かに止まっている。
香奈はシュンに目を戻していった。
「なんで立ち止まっていたの？ 結構、長かったよ、止まってたの」
「いや、足元に蟻が….. 」
「蟻？」
香奈は目を剥いて訊ねた。
「いや、アイスクリームが落ちていて、蟻が群がっていて、こんなにいっぱい持って帰るのかなーって」
香奈は口を硬く結び直してから、窓の外を眺め、コーヒーを飲んだ。コーヒーの熱とは別に冷めた視線だった。
シュンは、気づかれぬよう香奈の薬指を見た。指輪はなかった。が、彼はいるかもしれない。付き合ってるジャスティンビーバーばりの白人男性が香奈の部屋で、パスタを茹でて待ってるかもしれない。次々襲ってくる妄想にシュンは、香奈に気づかれぬよう、うめいていた。
「で、シュンはいつ帰るの？」
「え？」
「いつ帰るの？ 次は。日本に」
「あれ？ そういえば聞いてないな。俺、いつ帰ってくるんだろ」
「シュン、大丈夫？」
香奈は、自分ごとのように肩を落とした。それからいった。
「っていうことは、たぶん、無期限の可能性が高いね。一年二年じゃ帰れないよ、きっと」
シュンは、コーヒーを啜りながら、胸の内で、俺は日本に帰れないんだ、と呟いた。
口元に軽い笑みを浮かべた香奈は、ぼんやりしてうなだれているシュンにいった。
「見せて、シュン。４年間何をしていたのか。私に」
「たいしたことやってないよ、俺は。行き当たりばったりで」
香奈は、しばらく黙って俯いた。そしていった。
「私に、彼がいるかどうか、聞かないの？」
シュンは、窓の外に目を移した。さっきまで夏の陽光で明るかった風景が、霞んで見えた。すりガラスの向こうに見える七月の夕暮れのようだった。風景は遠くなり、音もなく滲んで、消え去ってゆくー
ふいに視界が暗くなった。音も消えて、暗闇に落ちたようだった。鼻先で香奈の髪が踊っている。シュンの唇にはやわらかい温もりがあった。
離れて、香奈は、外の景色を再び眺めた。静かな横顔だった。
「蟻なんて言わないで。もうそんなこと言わないで。シュン、ラインだって繋がっていたのに４年間ずっとそのままだったよ。わたし、シュンを忘れたことなんて一度もなかったよ。それはこれからもだよ。ずっと、ずっとだよ」
大きな雲が去ったのか、窓の外からシュンの足元に光が差し込んできた。
シュンは、窓の外を眺めた。
眩い夏の光がそこには溢れ、輝いていた。
了
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成田市。千葉県。日本。２００５年。 1 / 20
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2005 New Tokyo International Airport.
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Base Ball Bear-short hair
ベボベに感動して小説(掌編)を作りました.『夏のはじまりは、すりガラスの向こうに』です😃
Avec l'objectif hélios 44-4, 58mm
un peu trop "ton sur ton"... La panthère changera de maillot lors du prochain match ...
Belleville Stags vs. Rock Springs Ground Squirrels at the Rock Springs Conservation Park, Decatur, Illinois
-Il mio gatto pratica alcuni sports: qui è un lanciatore di Base-ball!
-My cat practice some sports: here is a pitcher of Base-ball!
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Bats and balls are ready for play at a vintage baseball game in Macon County, Illinois. Photo taken April 21, 2012, using a Nikon D7000.
Repository: California Historical Society
Collection: Dick Dobbins Collection on the Pacific Coast League 1866-1999, bulk 1902-1999.
Date: 1912
Call Number: MSP 4031
Digital object ID: MSP 4031.020
Preferred Citation: Opening of Base Ball Season 1912, Recreation Park, San Francisco, Cal. April 2 1912, Seals vs Oaks, courtesy, California Historical Society, MS 4031.020
Online finding aid: www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7c6037n5
In celebration of Black History Month
The Negro leagues were a collection of professional baseball leagues made up of predominantly black teams. The first attempt at a black league, the National Colored Base Ball League failed after just two weeks due to a lack of attendance. Several leagues came and went, some successful, some not. The leagues reached their heyday in the late 1930s and early 1940s. During World War II, millions of black Americans were working in defense plants and, making good money, they packed league games in every city. The leagues' ultimate demise started in 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. After that, first a trickle and then a flood of players from the Negro leagues were signed by Major League Baseball teams. By 1949, the Negro American League was the only "major" Negro League circuit still in operation, and by 1955 the last of the Negro League teams folded.
Octavius Catto, black baseball pioneer Negro league baseball was a direct result of baseball's color line. The first black-versus-black baseball game was held on September 28, 1860 at Elysian Fields in Brooklyn, New York. The Weeksville of New York beat the Colored Union Club 11-0. At this point in time, baseball was hardly a sport, let alone organized. It was mostly deemed a recreation around which social gatherings were held. The rules were also greatly different from those of the game as played currently.
By 1865, shortly after the end of the American Civil War and during the Reconstruction period that followed, a black baseball scene formed in the East and Mid-Atlantic states.
Comprised of mostly ex-soldiers and promoted by some well-known black officers, teams such as the Jamaica Monitor Club, Albany Bachelors, Philadelphia Excelsiors and the Chicago Uniques started playing each other and any other team that would play against them.
By the end of the 1860s, the black baseball mecca was Philadelphia. Two former cricket players, James H. Francis and Francis Wood, formed the Pythians who, because permits were difficult to get for black baseball games, played in Camden, Pennsylvania at the landing of the Federal Street Ferry. Octavius Catto, the promoter of the Pythians, decided to apply for official recognition of the Pythians by the National Association of Base Ball Players during its annual convention in December 1867. The association passed a resolution that excluded "any club which may be composed of one or more colored players."
Blackball continued to thrive despite the segregation, with the few black teams of the day playing not only each other, but white teams as well. On October 10, 1871, Catto was leaving the Institute for Colored Youth when he was murdered by a white man. With his death came the death of the best Negro team of the time, the Pythians.
Moses Fleetwood Walker, possibly the first African-American professional baseball player with the formation of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players in 1871, amateur baseball became a thing of the past. Research shows that the first professional black baseball player may have been William Edward White, who played one game in 1879 for the Providence Grays of the National League. Also accepted as the first black professional player is Bud Fowler who played for Stillwater, Minnesota club of the minor league Northwestern League in 1884. Several African-American players did manage to attain big league status. Among the very first was Moses Fleetwood Walker who played for the Toledo Blue Stockings during their first year in the American Association. Walker lasted until mid-season when an injury gave the team an excuse to release him. Then, in 1886, Frank Grant joined the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, hitting .340, third highest in the league.
The first black professional baseball team was formed in 1885 when former waiters and porters from the Argyle Hotel in Babylon, New York were spotted by a white businessman from Trenton, New Jersey, Walter Cook. Cook named the team the Cuban Giants so that he could attract more white fans. Shortly after the Giants' formation, the Jacksonville, Florida newspaper, the Leader, assembled the first Negro league, the Southern League of Base Ballists. The Southern League was comprised of ten teams: the Memphis Eclipse, the Georgia Champions of Atlanta, the Savannah Broads, the Memphis Eurekas, the Savannah Lafayettes, the Charleston Fultons, the Jacksonville Athletics, the New Orleans Unions, the Florida Clippers of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Macedonias. The league played its first game on June 7, a game between the Eclipse and the Unions in New Orleans, Louisiana. The league, deep in debt, lasted only one year.
The success of the Cubans led to the creation of the second Negro league in 1887 called the National Colored Base Ball League. The league was founded with nine teams: Boston Resolutes; New York Gorham; Philadelphia Pythians; Washington Capital Cities; Pittsburgh Keystones; Norfolk Red Stockings; Cincinnati Crowns; Lord Baltimores and the Louisville Fall Cities. The Giants and the Keystones took first and second place in the first two years, with the Giants crowned as inaugural champions in 1888. Walter S. Brown, a black Baltimore businessman and league president, applied for and was granted official minor league status by the National League. This move "prevented" any other team from signing any of the players from the League, but also locked the players in the league to their teams because of the reserve clause. One month into the season, the Resolutes folded. A week later, there were only three teams left.
It should be noted that, due in no small part to the popularity and success of the original Cuban Giants, many similarly named teams came into existence — including the Genuine Cuban Giants (the renamed Cuban Giants), Royal Giants, the Baltimore Giants and the Cuban X-Giants, the latter a powerhouse in the early 1900s. The "Cuban" teams, with the exception of the New York Cuban Stars and the Havana Giants, were all composed of African-Americans rather than Cubans; but the name was thought to increase their acceptance with white patrons, as Cuba was on very friendly terms with the US during those years.
The few players left on the white minor league teams were constantly dodging verbal and physical abuse from both competitors and fans. Then Rutherford B. Hayes signed the Compromise of 1877, and all the legal obstacles were removed from the South enacting the Jim Crow laws. To make matters worse, on July 14, 1887, Cap Anson's Chicago White Stockings were scheduled to play the Newark Giants of the International League who had Walker and George Stovey on its roster. After Anson marched his team onto the field, military style as was his custom, he demanded that the blacks not play. Newark capitulated, and later that same day league owners voted to refuse future contracts to blacks, citing the "hazards" imposed by such athletes. The American Association and National League quickly followed suit. In 1888, the Middle States League was formed and it admitted two all-black teams to its otherwise all-white league, the Cuban Giants and their arch-rivals, the New York Gorhams. Despite the animosity between the two clubs, they managed to form a traveling team, the Colored All Americans. This enabled them to make money barnstorming while fulfilling their league obligations. In 1890, the Giants returned to their independent, barnstorming identity, and by 1892, they were the only black team in the East still in operation on a full-time basis.
Chicago Union Giants in 1905, also in 1888, Frank Leland got some of Chicago's black businessmen to sponsor the black amateur Union Base Ball Club. Chicago's city government, Leland obtained a permit and lease to play at the South Side Park, a 5,000 seat facility. Eventually his team went pro and became the Chicago Unions.
After his stint with the Gorhams, Bud Fowler caught on with a team out of Findlay, Ohio. While his team was playing in Adrian, Michigan, Fowler was persuaded by two white local businessmen, L. W. Hoch and Rolla Taylor to help them start a team financed by the Page Woven Wire Fence Company, the Page Fence Giants. The Page Fence Giants went on to become a powerhouse team that had no home field. Barnstorming through the Midwest, they would play all-comers. Their success became the prototype for black baseball for years to come.
After the 1898 season, the Page Fence Giant were forced to fold because of finances. Alvin H. Garrett, a black businessman in Chicago, and John W. Patterson, the left fielder for the Page Fence Giants, reformed the team under the name of the Columbia Giants. In 1901 the Giants folded because of a lack of a place to play. Leland bought the Giants and merged it with his Unions (despite not a single Giant player ending up on the roster) and named them the Chicago Union Giants.
The Philadelphia Giants, owned by Walter Schlichter, a white businessman, rose to prominence in 1903 when they lost to the Cuban X-Giants in their version of the "Colored Championship". Leading the way for the Cubans was a young pitcher by the name of Andrew "Rube" Foster. The following season, Schlichter, in the finest blackball tradition, hired Foster away from the Cubans, and beat them in their 1904 rematch. Philadelphia remained on top of the blackball world until Foster left the team in 1907 to play and manage the Leland Giants (Frank Leland renamed his Chicago Union Giants the Leland Giants in 1905).
Around the same time, Nat Strong, a white businessmen, started using his ownership of baseball fields in the New York City area to become the leading promoter of blackball on the East coast. Just about any game played in New York, Strong would get a cut. Strong eventually used his leverage to put the Brooklyn Royal Giants almost out of business, and then he bought the club and turned it into a barnstorming team.
When Foster joined the Leland Giants, he demanded that he be put in charge in not only the on field activities, but the bookings as well. Foster immediately turned the Giants into the team to beat. He indoctrinated them to take the extra base, to play hit and run on nearly every pitch and to rattle the opposing pitcher by taking them deep into the count. He studied the mechanics of his pitchers and could spot the smallest flaw, turning his average pitchers into learned craftsmen. Foster also was able to turn around the business end of the team as well, by demanding and getting 40 percent of the gate instead of the 10 percent that Frank Leland was getting.
By the end of the 1909, Foster demanded that Leland step back from all baseball operations or Foster would leave. When Leland wouldn't give up complete control, Foster quit, and in a heated court battle, got to keep the rights to the Leland Giants' name. Leland took the players and started a new team named the Chicago Giants, while Foster took the Leland Giants and started to encroach on Nat Strong's territory.
As early as 1910, Foster started talking about reviving the concept of an all-black league. The one thing he was insistent on that black teams should be owned by black men. This put him in direct competition with Strong. After the 1912, Foster renamed his team the Chicago American Giants to appeal to a larger fan base. During the same year, J.L. Wilkerson started the All Nations traveling team. The All Nations team would eventually become one of the most well known and popular teams of the Negro leagues, the Kansas City Monarchs.
On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. Manpower needed by the defense plants and industry accelerated the migration of blacks from the South to the North. This meant a larger fan base that had more money to draw from. By the end of the war in 1919, Foster was again ready to start a Negro baseball league.
On February 13 and 14, 1920, talks where held in Kansas City, Missouri that established the Negro National League and its governing body the National Association of Colored Professional Base Ball Clubs. The league was initially comprised of eight teams: Chicago American Giants, Chicago Giants, Cuban Stars, Dayton Macros, Detroit Stars, Indianapolis ABC's, Kansas City Monarchs and St. Louis Giants. Foster was named league president and control every aspect of the league, including who played where and when and what equipment was used (all of which had to be purchased from Foster). Foster, as booking agent of the league, took a 10 percent cut of all gate receipts.
On May 20, 1920, The Indianapolis ABCs beat the Chicago American Giants in the first game played in the inaugural season of the Negro National League. But, because of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the National Guard still occupied the Giants' home field, Schorling's Park (formerly South Side Park). This forced Foster to cancel all the Giants' home games for almost a month and threatened to become a huge embarrassment for the league. In 1921, the Negro Southern League, a regional black semipro league, joined Foster's National Association of Colored Professional Base Ball Clubs. As a dues paying member of the association, it received the same protection from raiding parties as any team in the Negro National League.
Foster then admitted John Connors' Atlantic City Bacharach Giants as an associate member to move further into Nat Strong's territory. Connors, wanting to return the favor of helping him against Strong, raided Ed Bolden's Hilldale team. Bolden saw little choice but to team up with Foster's nemesis, Nat Strong. Within days of calling a truce with Strong, Bolden made an about face and signed up as an associate member of Foster's Negro National League.
On December 16, 1922, Bolden once again shifted sides and, with Strong, formed the Eastern Colored League as an alternative to Foster's Negro National League. The league started with six teams: Atlantic City Bacharach Giants, Baltimore Black Sox, Brooklyn Royal Giants, New York Cuban Stars, Hilldale, and New York Lincoln Giants. The National League was having trouble maintaining continuity among its franchises. Three teams folded and had to be replaced after the 1921 season, two others after the 1922 season and two more after the 1923 season. Foster kept replacing the defunct teams, calling teams up from the Negro Southern League. Finally Foster and Bolden met and agreed to an annual Negro League World Series beginning in 1924.
1925 saw the St. Louis Stars come of age in the Negro National League. They finished in second place during the second half of the year due in large part to their pitcher turned center fielder, Cool Papa Bell, and their shortstop, Willie Wells. After a gas leak nearly asphyxiated Foster, he was ruled insane because of his erratic behavior and committed to Kankakee Asylum. The last Negro League World Series between Foster's Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League occurred in 1927. While Foster was out of the picture, the owners of the National League elected William C. Hueston as new league president. In 1927, Bolden suffered a similar fate as Foster, by committing himself to a hospital because the pressure was too great.
In 1927, the Eastern League folded, but was quickly reformed into the American Negro League. The teams in the new American Negro League were the same ones from the Eastern League, with the exception of the Brooklyn Royal Giants which had folded and the addition of the Homestead Grays. The American Negro League lasted just one season. The Negro National League folded after the 1931 season. Some of its teams joined the only Negro league left, the Negro Southern League.
Just as Negro league baseball seemed was at its lowest point and was about to fade into history, along came Cumberland Posey and his Homestead Grays. Posey used the popularity of the Grays as a foundation of a new Negro league in 1932, the East-West League. Joining his Homestead Grays, were the Cleveland Stars, Newark Browns, Washington Pilots, Detroit Wolves, Hillsdale Daises, Baltimore Black Sox, and the Midwest edition of the Cuban Stars. By May 1932, the Detroit Wolves were about to collapse and instead of letting the team go, Posey kept pumping money into it. By June the Wolves had disintegrated and all the rest of the teams, except for the Grays, were beyond help, so Posey had to terminate the league.
Across town from Posey, Gus Greenlee, a reputed gangster and numbers runner, had just purchased the Pittsburgh Crawfords. Greenlee's main interest in baseball was to use it as a way to launder money from his numbers games. But, after learning about Posey's money making machine in Homestead, he became obsessed with the sport and his Crawfords. On August 6, 1931, Satchel Paige made his first appearance as a Crawford. With Paige on his team, Greenlee took a huge risk by investing $100,000 in a new ballpark to be called Greenlee Field. On opening day, April 30, 1932, the pitcher-catcher battery was made up of the two most marketable icons in all of blackball: Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson.
In 1933, Greenlee, riding the popularity of his Crawfords, decided to be the next man to start a Negro league. In February 1933, Greenlee and delegates from six other teams met at Greenlee's Crawford Grill to ratify the constitution of the National Organization of Professional Baseball Clubs. The name of the new league was the same as the old league, Negro National League. The members of the new league were the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Columbus Blue Birds, Indianapolis ABCs, Baltimore Black Sox, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Cole's American Giants (formerly the Chicago American Giants and Nashville Elite Giants. Greenlee also came up with the idea to duplicate the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, except, unlike the big league method, in which the sportswriters chose the players, the fans voted on the participants.
The new version of the Negro National League did well enough that it admitted two more teams for the 1934 season, the Philadelphia Stars and Newark Dodgers. The league continued to thrive despite the departure of its number one star, Paige, who chose to play for more money in Bismarck, North Dakota. Paige returned to the Crawfords for the 1936 season, much to the delight of Greenlee.
In 1937, Greenlee gave his blessing for J.L. Wilkerson to create a new Negro league in the Midwest, the Negro American League. The teams that made up the league were the Chicago American Giants (shifting to its appropriate geographical conference), Birmingham Black Barons, Cincinnati Tigers, Detroit Stars, Indianapolis Athletics, Kansas City Monarchs, Memphis Red Sox and St. Louis Stars. But before the beginning of the season, Paige signed to play in the Dominican Republic and took six other men with him, including Gibson and Bell. As a result, the league banned its number one player, Paige. Midway through the 1937 season, Greenlee was ousted as president in a coup led by Posey. After the season, the league rescinded the bans on the players that left and Greenlee ended up selling Paige's contract to Effa Manley's Newark Eagles. Instead of playing for the Eagles, Paige jumped to the Mexican League. In a meeting with other team owners, the Eagles threatened to pull out of the league, and take several teams with them, if the Paige issue wasn't resolved. The Eagles signed two players from the Toledo Crawfords in exchange for letting go of the rights to Paige, narrowly averting disaster for the Negro National League. In late September 1940, Paige made his debut with the Kansas City Monarchs.
With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States was thrust into World War II, and unlike World War I, black society in general vowed it would not be shut out of American war effort and its unifying effects at home. Just like the major leagues, the Negro leagues saw its share of stars miss one or more seasons fighting overseas, but, whereas the white major leagues was barely recognizable due to the absence of its stars, the Negro leagues reached its plateau. Things were going so well for the Negro leagues that Abe Saperstein, of the Harlem Globetrotters fame, started a new Negro circuit, the Negro Midwest League, a minor league similar to the Negro Southern League.
The Negro League World Series was revived in 1942, this time pitting the winners of the eastern Negro National League against the winners of the midwestern Negro American League, and continued until 1948, with the NNL winning four championships and the NAL three.
The Great Paige/Gibson Confrontation
A frequently-told legend of Black Baseball involves Game Two of the 1942 World Series on September 8, focusing upon two of Blackball's most famous legends, Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Monarchs and Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays in a legendary matchup. Unfortunately, a great deal of it is just that: legend and not truth.
According to the legend as frequently told in one form, Paige came into the game in the seventh inning with a 2-0 lead. He gave up a triple to leadoff batter Jerry Benjamin. With one man on and two out, Paige intentionally walked the next two batters, Vic Harris and Luke Easterling, so he could face the most feared hitter in all of baseball, Gibson, with the bases loaded. Paige threw two fastballs that Gibson fouled off, and then a third that Gibson completely missed. The story is also told as having happened in the ninth inning with the winning runs on base.
According to recent SABR research, Paige entered the game in the sixth inning, protecting a 2-0 lead for fellow Hall of Famer Hilton Smith, and after the lead had been extended to 5-0 in the eighth inning, Paige tired and surrendered four runs in the bottom of the inning, but ended the inning by getting Gibson for the final out. The Monarchs scored three more runs in the ninth to make the final score 8-4, with Smith earning the victory and Paige earning a save. While it is known that Paige struck two or three men out (accounts differ) during the game, there is no contemporary evidence that Gibson was himself a strikeout victim. What is known for certain is that neither of the two men who batted directly in front of Gibson (who was the cleanup batter in the Grays' lineup) walked during that game. While is is possible that Paige struck out Gibson with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning, he did not walk the two batters in front of him, intentionally or not, to get to him.
The first account of this legend was told by Paige himself in his autobiography "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever", about twenty years after the alleged incident and fifteen years after Gibson's death, but contemporary evidence of it is sorely lacking. Buck O'Neil's re-telling of the story is likely based upon Paige's telling in the book, with a number of embellishments added over the years. As with much of Baseball's Apocrypha, this one has a grain of truth to give it some weight, but has likely been embellished over the years.
In 1944, Bill Veeck tried to buy the Philadelphia Phillies with the intention of signing black ballplayers immediately. When Judge Landis, Baseball Commissioner, commissioner of Major League Baseball, was informed of Veeck's plan, he had the National League buy the team and award it to William Cox. (Although this story has long been part of accepted baseball lore, in recent years, its veracity has been disputed by some researchers.)
In March 1945, the white majors created the Major League Committee on Baseball Integration. Its members included Joseph P. Rainey, Larry MacPhail and Branch Rickey. Because MacPhail, who was an outspoken critic of integration, kept stalling, the committee never met. Under the guise of starting an all-black league, Rickey sent scouts all around the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico, looking for the perfect candidate to break the color line. His list eventually was narrowed down to three, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe and Jackie Robinson.
On August 28, 1945, Jackie Robinson met with Rickey in Brooklyn where Rickey gave Robinson a "test" by berating him and shouting racial epithets that Robinson would hear from day one in the white game. Having passed the test, Robinson signed the contract which stipulated that from then on, Robinson had no "written or moral obligations" to any other club. By the inclusion of this clause, precedent was set that would raze the Negro leagues as a functional commercial enterprise.
To throw off the press and keep his intentions hidden, Rickey got heavily involved in Gus Greenlee's newest foray into black baseball, the United States League. Greenlee started the league in 1945 as a way to get back at the owners of the Negro National League teams for throwing him out. Rickey saw the opportunity as a way to convince people that he was interested in cleaning up blackball, not integrating it. In midsummer of 1945, Rickey, almost ready with his Robinson plan, pulled out of the league. The league folded after the end of the 1946 season.
Pressured by civil rights groups, the Fair Employment Practices Act was passed by the New York State Legislature in 1945. This followed the passing of the Quinn-Ives Act banning discrimination in hiring. At the same time, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia formed the Mayor's Commission on Baseball to study integration of the major leagues. This all led to Rickey announcing the signing of Robinson much earlier than he would have liked. On October 23, 1945, Montreal Royals president Hector Racine announced that, "We are signing this boy."
Early in 1946, Rickey signed four more black players, Campanella, Newcombe, John Wright and Roy Partlow, this time to much less fanfare. After the integration of the major leagues in 1947, as marked by the appearance of Jackie Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers that April, interest in Negro League baseball waned. Young players with enough talent were signed by major league teams, often without regard for any contracts that might have been signed with Negro League clubs. Negro League owners who complained about this practice were in a no-win situation: they could not protect their own interests without seeming to interfere with the advancement of players to the majors. By 1948, only the Dodgers and Veeck's Cleveland Indians had integrated. While Robinson was quickly becoming a star, it was the performance of Larry Doby in 1948 that convinced most owners that black players had the ability to compete in the major leagues.
Some proposals were floated to bring the Negro Leagues into "organized baseball" as developmental leagues for black players, but this was seen as contrary to the goal of full integration of the sport. So the Negro Leagues, at one time one of the largest and most prosperous black-owned business ventures, were allowed to fade into oblivion. After the 1948 season the Negro National league folded when the Grays withdrew to go back to barnstorming, Eagles moved to Houston, Texas and the New York Black Yankees folded. The Grays ended up folding after the 1949 season having lost $30,000 trying to barnstorm. Many black players were signed to minor league contracts only to move from one bush league team to another, rarely getting the chance to play in the majors despite their success in the minors. The Negro American League played its last game in 1958.
The last of the Negro league teams the Indianapolis Clowns continued to play exhibition games into the 1980s as a curiosity and sideshow rather than a serious baseball team.
Negro National League (first), 1920–1931
Eastern Colored League, 1923–1928; the NNL and ECL champions met in a World Series from 1924 to 1927.
American Negro League lasted just one season 1929 created from some of the ECL teams.
East-West League played part of one season in 1932.
Negro Southern League was a minor league that played from 1920 into the 1940s; in 1932 it incorporated some teams from the first Negro National League and functioned for one year as a major league.
Negro National League (second), 1933–1948.
Negro American League, 1937–1960 or so. (After 1950, the league and its teams operated after a fashion, mostly as barnstorming units, but historians have a hard time deciding when the league actually came to an end.) The National and American Leagues met in a Negro League World Series from 1942 through 1948.
In his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech in 1966, Ted Williams made a strong plea for inclusion of Negro League stars in the Hall. After the publication of Robert Peterson's landmark book Only the Ball was White in 1970, the Hall of Fame found itself under renewed pressure to find a way to honor Negro League players who would have been in the Hall had they not been barred from the major leagues due to the color of their skin.
At first, the Hall of Fame planned a "separate but equal" display, which was criticized by the press, the fans and the players it was intended to honor. The Hall relented and agreed to admit Negro League players on an equal basis with their Major League counterparts in 1971. A special Negro League committee selected Satchel Paige in 1971, followed by (in alphabetical order) Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, Martin Dihigo, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Judy Johnson, Buck Leonard and John Henry Lloyd. (Of the nine, only Irvin and Paige spent any time in the major leagues.) The Veterans Committee later selected Ray Dandridge, as well as choosing Rube Foster on the basis of meritorious service (though many feel he deserved selection as a player as well).
From 1995 to 2001, the Hall made a renewed effort to select additional luminaries from the Negro Leagues; honorees during this period include Leon Day, Bill Foster, Bullet Joe Rogan, Hilton Smith, Turkey Stearnes, Willie Wells, and Smokey Joe Williams.
Other members of the Hall who played in both the Negro Leagues and the Major Leagues include Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby, Willie Mays, and Jackie Robinson. However, their play in the Negro Leagues was usually a minor factor in their selection — Aaron, Banks and Mays played only briefly in the Negro Leagues, and not during the years when these leagues were at peak quality due to the fact that many of the best black players had moved to the integrated minor leagues; Campanella (1969) and Robinson (1962) were selected before the Hall began considering performance in the Negro Leagues.
[Boston, American League base ball grounds, players and bleachers]
c1903.
1 photographic print : silver printing-out paper ; 9.5 x 29.5 in.
Notes:
On front: "Copyright by E. Chickering & Co., 1903, all other reproductions forbidden, no. 4."
Title derived from copyright deposit records.
Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; September 26, 1903; DLC/PP-1903:41954.194.
Published in: Baseball Americana : treasures from the Library of Congress / Harry Katz, et al. New York : Smithsonian Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)
Baseball.
United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
Format: Panoramic photographs.
Silver printing-out paper prints.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
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Part Of: Panoramic photographs (Library of Congress) (DLC) 93845487
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Call Number: PAN SUBJECT - Sports no. 79
Detroit & Lima Northern 4-4-0 No. 7 (1897 Baldwin) steaming in July 2023 at the Henry Ford Museum - Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan. This classic American-standard later worked for the DT&I, where it became the favorite locomotive of Henry Ford, who often used it on trips with his private car "Fairlane." Ford had it restored to its original appearance in 1930 and put on display in his namesake museum. Despite its beautiful outward appearance, it required a major rework before it could steam again in 2013. Today, No. 7 is one of three steam locomotives that see regular service on Greenfield Village's perimeter rail line, which is known as the Weiser Railroad.