May 21, 2007
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05/20/07 -
A Computer Science
Graduate Relates How He Dealt With Outsourcing…By
Playing Poker
A California Reader Says Joe
Guzzardi Is Wrong; Baseball Is An Iberian Thing!
From: Marie L. Coccia [e-mail
her]
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
Strike Three For American Baseball Players
I've been studying the
Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula from
the Muslims. Tangible evidence exists that baseball, or
a form of it, was around long, long ago.
There is a wonderful illumination in the Cantigas de
Santa Maria commissioned by King Alfonso X (ruled
1252-1284 AD) very clearly portraying a batter up with a
pitcher preparing to throw. You can see this in the
upper right hand panel of the Cantiga #42 image
here.
I must say that our
Protestant/Anglo-centric educational system leaves
us a bit myopic to the true scope of history.
Coccia is a historian
writing a fictionalized literary work on the Conquest of
Mexico from
Hernando Cortes'
point-of-view to commemorate the 500th
anniversary of his first full year in the Western
Hemisphere, and also of the first appearance of the word
“America” on a European map.
