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Article: Marianne Moore (not) at the Polo Grounds.
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- April 1, 1994
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In Marianne Moore: A Literary Life (1990), Charles Molesworth retells an anecdote from Alfred Kreymborg's 1925 memoir Troubador. Kreymborg tells how he was at a loss for subjects on which Moore was not an expert, and so decided to take her to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan. Kreymborg expected her to be bemused by the ball game, and was pleased when she chatted through infield practice about Ezra Pound rather than paying any attention to the players. But when the Giants took the field, she went seamlessly from literary art to the art of baseball: "I take it it must be Mr. Mathewson I've read his instructive book on the art of pitching ... And it's a ...