Pic(k) of the Week: The Final Out

Let me sit in the ball park

cap turned backwards and

praying for a rally. I need

the sun and sweat to remind

me how much I love the game,

how each year it comes down,

to the last inning, the final out.

 — Baseball

E. Ethelbert Miller

If God Invented Baseball: Poems

(Simon and Schuster, 2018)

Baseball's playoffs began this week; the World Series championship is to be played later in the month. It's autumn. The wait-for-tomorrows of spring and summer are no more. All that remains is the "final out."

No baseballs were harmed —or staged— during the shoot.

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• Pictured: a youth-baseball field, in Legacy Park, Decatur, Georgia, USA. 24 September 2023.


• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays, occasionally (but not the case today) with a good fermentable as the subject.
• Photo 40 of 52, for year 2023. See hi-res version on Flickr: here.
• Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.


• Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
• Lens: Lumix G 20/F1.7 II
• Settings: 20 mm | 1/800 sec. | ISO 400 | ƒ/5.6


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