{"id":112,"date":"2008-12-29T07:52:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T13:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-03-12T22:18:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T04:18:56","slug":"it-never-rains-in-tiger-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/29\/it-never-rains-in-tiger-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/3835027\">It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/bradleyjohned\">John Ed Bradley<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div id=\"brtext_39753452\">&#8220;Every  time an artist showed you his work, he was really asking you a  question, and the question was always the same: &#8216;Am I any good?'&#8221; (Big  Ed Stanton page 261) John Ed Bradley asked that question many times in  this work. While he may not be convinced, the answer to his questions is  a resounding, &#8220;Yes you are!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I watched John Ed Bradley and Big  Ed Stanton and many other personalities in this book play or coach. I  know many others vicariously as characters familiar to some I&#8217;ve known.  Even the title rings nostalgically for me because there was a good while  for which it seemed to hold (mostly) true. The proper time to play a  game in Tiger Stadium (aka &#8220;Deaf Valley&#8221;) was 7 or 7:30 p.m. after the  usual humidity laden air had dropped its precipitation for the day.<\/p>\n<p>His  use of interlaced vignettes pulls one into the story better than most  novels ever do. We learn to know his parents, schoolmates, towns folk  and teammates friends and admirers, and especially Coach Mac. John Ed  Bradley shares the usually closed space behind the mask of masculine  emotions, especially the doubts about measuring up to potential; to  duty. ( <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.librarything.com\/pics\/ss9.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time an artist showed you his work, he was really asking you a question, and the question was always the same: &#8216;Am I any good?'&#8221; (Big Ed Stanton page 261) John Ed Bradley asked that question many times in this work. While he may not be convinced, the answer to his questions is a resounding, &#8220;Yes you are!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-films"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-1O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}