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Originally Posted by CRussel
Which brings me back to the continual references to baseball. True, it's a sport that was (and is) very much part of Cuba, but I'm still trying to understand it's place in the story.
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The single funniest bit in the book (granted, there's not a lot of competition) was when Santiago said in effect, "I fear the Tigers and the Indians." I There was some irony in his faith in the Yankees, as the Yankees (the nationality, not the team) were to traduce Cuba majorly before the end of the decade; perhaps Hemingway was being prescient. I thought Joe DiMaggio functioned as something like a false god or golden idol.