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From: Lindsay <linds_na>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:06:06 -0800 (PST)
On 5 Jan 1999 Brenda_Bowen at prenhall.com wrote:
I think there's a distinction that no one's mentioned yet between sports
*players* and sports *fans*. These two groups are not mutually exclusive, of course, (and may be like talking about squares and rectangles: the first is a subset of the second) but I think that the fans are the ones who will enjoy reading about it. Maybe, in fact, it's the fans who are not players who are the readers of sports fiction.
(On a side note: I hope everyone has read Jerry Spinelli's autobiography
"Knots in my Yo-yo string." There's a great story about him writing a poem about a football game...)
Nina
Nina Lindsay, Children's Librarian Melrose Branch, Oakland Public Library 4805 Foothill Boulevard Oakland, CA 94601
(510)535V23 linds_na at oak2.ci.oakland.ca.us
Received on Wed 06 Jan 1999 01:06:06 PM CST
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:06:06 -0800 (PST)
On 5 Jan 1999 Brenda_Bowen at prenhall.com wrote:
I think there's a distinction that no one's mentioned yet between sports
*players* and sports *fans*. These two groups are not mutually exclusive, of course, (and may be like talking about squares and rectangles: the first is a subset of the second) but I think that the fans are the ones who will enjoy reading about it. Maybe, in fact, it's the fans who are not players who are the readers of sports fiction.
(On a side note: I hope everyone has read Jerry Spinelli's autobiography
"Knots in my Yo-yo string." There's a great story about him writing a poem about a football game...)
Nina
Nina Lindsay, Children's Librarian Melrose Branch, Oakland Public Library 4805 Foothill Boulevard Oakland, CA 94601
(510)535V23 linds_na at oak2.ci.oakland.ca.us
Received on Wed 06 Jan 1999 01:06:06 PM CST
