3 June 2021

 

     I went in for radiation today at UW Health.  I have a visit tonight via Zoom.  I am tired.  A little more pain than yesterday.  I slept for just over five hours.  I would have liked more.

     I finished But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870.  I enjoyed it but wish it went more in depth.

     I knew early baseball was championed as a way of engaging in healthy exercise.  Considering how television era children and adults were labeled couch potatoes, I could not understand how nineteenth century baseball could gain that status.

     Morris explained that the alternative in cities, where most baseball was played, was the tavern with its drinking and gambling.  People back then often began working at ten or twelve years old.

     I had a Zoom call with Peg Swan with the Forum For Understanding Prisons, who is helping me with my push to be released.

     I received notice that the Department of Corrections turned down my request for a compassionate release.  I will file a complaint, which at best will end up in court, who will sit on it until I die.  Thus, declaring it a moot issue.