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Baseball Has a Religion Too
By Joe Williams
There
is
saying
at
the
race
track
that
you
can't
"rule
a
man
off
for
trying."
I
believe
in
thisapproach to life on this
earth. I believe in God. I believe in
my country. I believe in basic
humandecency. I believe there is
a
right
and
a
wrong
way
to
do
things.
If
I
were
asked
to
defineAmericanism - what made
our country what it is to date
-
I
would
say
it
was
the
American'swillingness
and
ambition to stand on his own two feet.
I keep a box score on
every
baseballgame I cover. There is a credit column in
which
hits are recorded and there is a
debit columnin which errors
are listed.
These are often
deceptive.
They
will give hits to a
batter who hasbeen lucky and they will
charge errors against a
fielder who has
been unlucky. This is a smallmirror of life
itself.
These things over a long run
even up just as they do in life.
I've
seen
shortstops
make
errors
on
plays
another
1
shortstop
would
not
even
try
to
make.
Hehad
his
record
in
mind. The shortstop who made the errors
had the team's
success in mind.
Hewas willing to sacrifice his personal record
in
the
greater
interest
of
the
team's
success.
Thereis
a
kind of religion in that
attitude.
I've often wondered how
it would be, how it would
affect the
lives of our people if we all kept adaily box
score on
ourselves. As a matter of
fact, I believe in sports as a way of life.
It
wasWellington
who
said
battles
are
won
on
the
playing
fields of Eton. I believe it can be
stated withequal truth that the
principles
of
decent
citizenship
are
born
on
the
sand
lots
of
Bass
River,Massachusetts,
Peoria,
Illinois,
and
Southgate,
California.
That's where
our youngsters first see the religion of
sports, if I may be permitted the term,
inactual use. They learn
about
fair
play,
sportsmanship
and
working
together
in
a
commoncause.
And
because
they
frequently
learn
by
ugly
contrast, their instincts
and the earlyteachings they got from
their
parents
are
sharpened
against
unfair
practices,
bully-ragging
andswell-headedness.
Not
too
long
ago
I
had
what
was
apparently
a
narrow
escape from death. I was
the lastpassenger out of a burning
2
plane, the crash of which
had instantly killed the pilot. I believe
Iam
a
physical
coward,
but
singularly
I
felt
not
fear
when
I
came to and began
to seek a wayto safety. Maybe I was still
stunned,
but
I
was
completely
composed.
I
did
not
pray,
though Ibelieve in prayer. I did not
think of my family, though I
am devoted
to my family. I was neithersure I would escape nor
that
I
would
perish.
I
was,
I
suppose,
completely
resigned
towhatever fate awaited me.
They
have
another
saying
around
the
race
tracks
-
"The red
board is up." This means the raceis over,
the
result
is
final,
and
there's
nothing
anybody
can
do
about it. It has gone into therecords.
I
believe
that
somehow
much
of
the
philosophy
of
the
people I live with his rubbed off me.
Idon't know whether
this is good or
bad. All I know is that is how it is with me and
I've lived ahappy life and I hope a
reasonably decent one
according to my
lights.
棒球运动中也有信仰
乔
;
威廉斯
赛
场上有一种说法，
“选手有尝试的机会”
。
我相信生活中也应采< /p>
取这种态度。我还相信上帝，相信我的祖国，相信人性本善，相信处
事原则有对有错。
如果让我来界定什么是美国精神，
也就是我们的国
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家得以有今日之成就的这种精神，
我认为它指的就是美国人民自强自
立的意愿和志向。我保留着自己报导过的每场棒
球比赛的成绩一览
表。
表上正分那一栏记录的是击出安打的次数，
负分那一栏则记录着
失误的次数。
这样的记录常常不准确，
因为有时会把安打球记在某位
走运的击球员身上，而有时又会把失误记在某位
倒霉的守场员身上，
但久而久之总的数据还是会基本扯平
— —
生命中的许
多事情又何尝不是如此。
< /p>
我见过有些游击手在比赛中故意出现失误，
这些失误其他游击手
< p>压根儿不会考虑，
因为他们脑子里想的是自己的个人表现记录。
选择
故意失误的游击手想的是球队的胜利，
为了顾全球队的大局，
< p>他们宁
可牺牲自己的个人成绩。我想这种态度就是一种信仰的体现。
我常想，
如果我们每人每天都能填写一份自己的成绩与不足一览
表，那我们的生活将会怎样变化
!
其实我一直都认为体育运动也是 一
种生活方式。
威灵顿公爵曾经说过，
人生的胜负是在伊 顿公学的操场
上决定的。我想这句话对棒球场也同样适用。马萨诸塞州的巴斯河，
伊
利
诺
伊
州
的< /p>
皮
奥
里
亚
，
加
利
福
尼
亚
州
的
< p>绍斯
盖
特
—&mdas
h;
在这些棒球训练场上，
公民的优良品质得以形成、
得
以体现。
在棒球运动中，
我们的年轻人第一次发现体育 运动中实际上也有
信仰，如果能允许我使用“信仰”这个词。他们明白了什么叫公平竞<
/p>
争，什么是运动精神，学会了通过团结合作去实现共同的目标。他们
也经常在体育比赛中看到不公平竞争、
威胁恐吓或是骄傲自大等丑陋
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现象。
正是这种丑恶与美德形成的强烈反差让 他们源自于天性以及早
年家庭教育的那些优良品质得以发扬光大。
不久以前我有过一次死里逃生的惊险经历。我乘坐的飞机着了
火，我
刚一逃出机舱飞机就坠毁了，驾驶员当场丧生。我是个畏惧自
然法则的人，但奇怪的是，
当我回过神来逃生时，我一点也不害怕。
也许我受了惊吓，但我非常镇静。在那一刻，我
没有祷告，尽管我相
信祷告的力量：我也没有想到家人，尽管我深爱着他们。我既不知道
自己能否死里逃生，
也不知道自己是否必死无疑。
我想我 当时是将自
己完全交给了命运去安排。
赛场上
还有一种说法，叫做“竖起红板”
，指的是比赛已然结束，
胜负已见分晓
，一切都已载入记录，谁也改变不了。
我身边许多人的人生哲学都对我
产生了影响。我不知这是好是
坏。我只知道这就是我的生活态度，而我也过着快乐的生活
，希望这
是一种在我看来正派的生活。
附注：
乔
;
威 廉斯：是《纽约世界电讯太阳报》的体育栏目责任编辑，
还是斯克里普斯
-
霍华德报系的体育专栏作家。
初三英语美文篇
2Growing in the Middle Ground
Anne Phipps
I believe
that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive.
Perhaps
I’m
in
a
stage
ofmetamorphosis,
which
will
one
day
have
me
emerging
complete,
sure
of
everything.
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Perhaps,I shall spend my life
searching.
Until this winter, I
believed in outward things, in beauty as
I
found
it
in
nature
and
art.
Beautypast—swift
and
sure—from the outside to the
inside, bringing intense
emotion.
I
felt
aformless
faith
when
I
rode
through
summerwoods,
when
I
heard
the
counterpoint
of
breakingwaves, when I held a
flower in my hand.
There was the same
inspiration from art, here and there in
flashes; in seeing for the first
timethe delicacy of a green jade
vase,
or
the
rich
beauty
of
a
rug;
in
hearing
a
passage
of
musicplayed
almost
perfectly;
in
watching
Markov
dance
Giselle;
most of all, in reading. Other
people’screations,
their
sensitivity to emotion, color, sound, their
feeling for form,
instructed
me.
Thenecessity
for
beauty,
I
found
to
be
the
highest
good,
the
human
soul’s
greatest
gift.
But
therewere moments when I wasn’t
sure. There was an
emptiness inside,
which beauty could not fill.
This
winter,
I
came
to
college.
The
questions
put
to
me
changed.
Lists
of
facts—and
whodragged
whom
how
many times around the walls of
what—lost importance.
Instead,
I
wasasked eternal
question: what
is beauty, what
is
truth, what is God? I talked about
faith withother students. I
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