Baseball and Sculptures Could Mix, but Don’t This Time

From the Washington Post: Nationals’ Sculptures: No Hits, Just Errors.

Hanging from the ceiling by the food concessions above the first-base line, Washington artist Walter Kravitz’s four big, colorful mobiles, covered in wacky cutout ballplayers. I showed them to one baseball-mad informant — my nephew Trevor, who once helped take the District’s Little League team to the national playoffs — and he said they left him cold. Their Scooby Doo colors and “weirdly distorted shapes” had nothing to do with the grace and power he looks for in baseball. “I really don’t like how they did the bodies,” he said.
Alissa Wilkinson

Alissa Wilkinson

<a href="http://www.alissawilkinson.com">Alissa Wilkinson</a> founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years. She now teaches writing and humanities a <a href="http://www.tkc.edu">The Ki