山姆的小島心情

Build it, and they will come. Indeed. For thousands of blind and visually impaired athletes, baseball was once a game playable only on a field of dreams; until the early '70s, that is, when Telephone Pioneers of America volunteers came up with the idea to place a sound-emitting device and a tiny speaker . . . inside a softball. And so, Beep baseball was born. Suddenly, the national pastime became a game for the sighted and sightless alike. "It's every bit a dream come true," says Joe Wood of Atlanta, first baseman with the Fastar Comet beep baseball team. We talked with Wood as he packed his bags for the 1998 World Series of Beep Baseball, held last month in Oklahoma City. "Thanks to the Pioneers, we can enjoy baseball just like everybody else," said Wood, who is also vice president of the National Beep Baseball Association. "Being able to compete, to be part of a team, to be winners - it's a blast!".

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　「私は市民として戦後民主主義者ですからね、憲法９条がなによりの支えです。自爆テロにも反対です。それでいて小説家の想像は、いつも奇怪な逸脱を含み込むものなんです。しかも、本気でそれを考えます」

　本作は「チェンジリング３部作」の完結編でもある。義兄の映画監督・伊丹十三氏の自殺を直接の契機として書かれた『取り替え子』（２０００年末刊）。そこで登場した大江氏自身をモデルとした主人公・長江古義人（ちょうこうこぎと）が、第２部『憂い顔の童子』の中では、鬱々（うつうつ）としながら蛮勇を大いに振るった。結末、古義人は「老いたるニホンの会」が遊びに企画したデモ行進で、頭部に自滅的な重傷を負う。