:40:03
Look, he's my favorite writer, too...
:40:06
...but what's Terence Mann
got to do with baseball?
:40:37
It's incredible. By the early '70s,
the guy decides people have become...
:40:41
...either too extremist
or too apathetic to listen.
:40:43
So he stops writing books,
he starts writing poetry about whales...
:40:49
...and then he starts fooling around
with a home computer.
:40:53
Know what he does now?
:40:55
He writes software
for interactive children's videos.
:40:58
They teach kids
how to resolve their conflicts peacefully.
:41:02
-God, what an amazing guy.
-What's that got to do with baseball?
:41:06
In the April 1962 issue of Jet magazine...
:41:08
...there's a story called
"This ls Not A Kite."
:41:12
It's not his best work, but the story's hero
is named John Kinsella.
:41:18
-My father.
-Wow.
:41:20
What do you mean, "Wow"?
:41:21
What should I say? Big wow!
What's it got to do with baseball?
:41:26
You drive.
:41:33
Okay, the last interview
he ever gave was in 1973.
:41:36
-Guess what it's about.
-Some kind of team sport.
:41:39
The guy was a baseball fanatic.
Listen to this:
:41:42
"As a child, my earliest recurring dream
was to play at Ebbets Field...
:41:46
"...with Jackie Robinson
and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
:41:48
"Of course, it never happened.
The Dodgers left Brooklyn.
:41:51
"They tore down Ebbets Field,
but even now, I still dream that dream."
:41:56
That's sad.
:41:59
The man wrote the best books
of his generation.