'Sculpting out' a narrative

Through baseball, TV, 80s movies, and the Western Canon

One of the best and worst things about growing up with cable television in the 1980s was that many of us became (overly-perhaps) familiar with several movies and TV shows.

By virtue of the "superstations" WGN out of Chicago and WTBS out of Atlanta was that I had a great grasp on National League baseball. The Cubs played their home games during the day wh…