The article said that:
During the summer, when she would migrate to New York City, she would go to museums and the theater and root for the Mets, the natural choice for someone with an underdog thing as big as the Ritz.
Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama puts on a stage rendition of "To Kill a Mockingbird" each year. The article ends on this note:
Anyhow, this got me thinking. Maybe the Mets should do some sort of tribute to Miss Lee, to mark the 50th anniversary of the book. Instead just booing, fans should be encouraged to yell "Boo...Radley!"...if you’ve got a bottle of water, inspirational or otherwise, it makes for a uniquely American evening, right down to the realization that, as you’re standing and applauding for the sometimes contradictory notions of small-town values and racial tolerance, Harper Lee would prefer to be a thousand miles to the north, cheering, “Let’s Go, Mets!”
What say you, Squawker Jon? And please, stop banging your head against the wall!
What do you think? Tell us about it!
2 comments:
Harper Lee actually lived in New York for a time, moving there from Alabama in 1950. So I rather think she was a Giant or Dodger fan to begin with - probably the Giants since Willie Mays was a fellow Alabaman.
Well, 1969 Met Cleon Jones was from Alabama.
Then again, Harper Lee was also close friends with Truman Capote ("Dill" in the book), so maybe her judgment can be called into question on other things, like baseball.
Since Lee is famously reclusive (not quite as much as J.D. Salinger, a N.Y. Giants fan according to W.P. Kinsella's book that got turned into "Field of Dreams," but close), we can probably forget about her confirming or denying her fanhood.
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