So over the weekend my family ended up coming up here to stay for a few days. My dad knows I’m involved in this Whitman project, so he couldn’t wait to tell me that he had seen a show on PBS last week where a man was inspired by a Walt Whitman poem about baseball to build a giant baseball diamond in his backyard. Unfortunately he failed to remember what the show was called, or which poem it was, so I have been searching in vain to find the show.
I think it is possibly this program here (I am encouraged by the Whitman quote on the top of the page) but none of the episode descriptions mention a man building a field a la “Field of Dreams.” If I ever manage to find a clip of it I will post it here, but I thought I’d throw this out there in case anyone knew anything about it.
One thing I did find out through my searches: there are lots of little league teams named after Whitman.
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