All about baseball is concerned with all around baseball because it is round. What goes around comes around if it is round. So many things of nature are round. Most all balls are round except for the football which is an elliptical spheroid made of pigskin. Every baseball player loves apple pie as a matter of choice. All of America loves baseball and apple pie. A funny thing about mom's apple pie, unless it was a cobbler is that all of her pies were round. In high school in geometry class the teacher told us something very intriguing to help us remember the formula we should use to calculate the area of a circle. Remember this, "Pie are square" (II r 2). We knew better but it sounded so dumb, none of us ever forgot it. Balls are round, circles are round, hands of a clock go round, the earth is round, and the Universe is round about us. Maybe this universe thing is where we got this "What goes around comes around." The most profound use of round is when the woman of the house would like to have something done around the house. The man of the house usually has a standard response, "I will as soon as I can get round to it." Just about anything we talk about concerning sports revolves around round. We play round robin tournaments, we play a round of golf. We round out the season with a championship game of football. We toss horseshoes at a round iron stake, and we round up kids of the neighborhood to have a pickup game of baseball. One of the fun things to do with today's huge crowd at the ball park or ball stadium is to start a large, I mean a humongous, Beach Ball rolling around the crowd it goes all around. Like they say round and round it goes where it will stop nobody knows. Instead of humongous I could have said, "Golly whopper." For those who are wondering what a golly whopper looks like it is somewhat akin to a real big" thing a ma jig." |
