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Personal Cosmic Game Report Kerouac Homes @ Kerouac Family March 12, 2008

Kerouac Memorial Game The American writer Jack Kerouac was a great fan of baseball. As a child growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts he both played the real sport of baseball, and created his own imaginary (fantasy) baseball league. Each year on Kerouac's birthday (he would have been 86 years old today; he died in 1969) the Cosmic Baseball Association plays a baseball game in memory of the author. Kerouac has been a member of the Cosmic Baseball Association's Dharma Beats team since its creation in 1983. This year the Jack Kerouac Memorial Game pitted Kerouac family members against a selection of Kerouac homes. Do you know what this homestead, this ranch is? -- what my stature and responsibility in it is?: it's a footing from which I can be my childlike self forever. --Kerouac ROSTERS Kerouac Homes 9 Lupine St Catcher 34 Beaulieu St Secondbase 66 West St Shortstop 16 Phebe Ave Centerfield 240 Hildreth St Firstbase 271 Sanders Ave Thirdbase 34 Gilbert St Leftfield 5155 10th Ave Rightfield 5169 10th Ave Pitcher Kerouac Family Gabrielle (Mother) Catcher Jan (Daughter) Shortstop Joan (2nd Wife) Secondbase Edie (1st Wife) Centerfield Leo (Father) Firstbase Gerard (Brother) Rightfield Nin (Sister) Leftfield Stella (3rd Wife) Thirdbase Jack (Kerouac) Pitcher Game Time 3 hours 12 minutes Weather Cloudy 47o Attendance Undisclosed Umpires Deborah J. Palfrey Eliot Spitzer Tristessa Official Scorer Douglas Brinkley Game MCP Most Cosmic Player Stella Sampas This game was primarily a pitching duel after the second inning squeeze play executed perfectly at the plate by Kerouac's third wife (and game MCP) Stella Sampas Kerouac. The pitching battle was between Kerouac and his last house. The visiting team of homes included a pitching/catching battery consisting of Kerouac's first and last house. In 1922, 9 Lupine Street in Lowell, Massachusetts was a simple, yellow-brown wooden two-family tenement house in the Centralville part of town. He was born in the Lupine house at approximately 5pm, the third child of Leo and Gabrielle. Kerouac's older brother and sister also lived in this house. His bedroom had lace curtains made by his mother. In 1969, Kerouac was living in a house located at 5169 Tenth Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was his second St. Petersburg home having first lived there in 1964 in the house next door at 5155 Tenth Avenue. (Between life in the two residences, there was an April 1966 move to a house in Hyannis, Massachusetts and a move back to Lowell in 1967. Kerouac bought the second St. Petersburg house from the people who had built it, their name was, coincidentally, Burrows. Kerouac, his mother, who had suffered a stroke in 1966 and his third wife (he married Stella on November 19, 1966 inside his Hyannis home at 20 Bristol Avenue) all moved to the new home in St. Petersburg in November 1968. 9 Lupine Street, Lowell, Massachusetts Kerouac's first home Ann Charters, one of Kerouac's first biographers begins Chapter 1 of her 1973 biography with the following, In 1954 when Jack Kerouac was thirty-two years old, he tried to define, for a friend, what it was he wanted out of life. The friend suggested that what he really wanted was a thatched hut, like Thoreau's, not at Walden Pond, but in Lowell..." In 1972 Carolyn Cassady prepared "An Astrological Reading" that was included as Appendix Two in Ann Charters 1973 biography of Kerouac. Kerouac's natal horoscope (3/12/1922 @ 5:00pm, 43 North, 71 West) shows that the planet Mars at10 degrees Sagittarius is on the cusp of the Fourth House. In astrology, the Fourth House represents the home, the parents, and the early years of life. The planet Mars is adversely aspected by being square to planet Uranus. Further, Kerouac's Moon in Virgo was also square to Mars. Cassady concludes, "No doubt these squares contributed to his impulsive and risky moves his mother later had to undergo from home to home and state to sate. Much energy was expended in an external search for 'home'...A passionate early wish was for a home that would accommodate all his friends." Kerouac was born inside his parent's house on 9 Lupine Road in Lowell and his last corporeal moments were spent inside St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg. The resonance between the Catholic Kerouac and St. Anthony is apparent. Kerouac likely understood St. Anthony's attraction to the hermetic and ascetic lifestyle as a discipline for the spiritual life. Learn one's path and follow it, is a St. Anthony mantra. Kerouac found the path, it had by then become a paved roadway, but he was not always able to follow it. Top 3099 v3.12.2008 Cosmic Baseball Association http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/08jkgame.html Line Score Box Score Score Card Inn. 1: JKHOMES [Starter] Jack 9Lupine K . . . 34Beaulieu 8 . . . 66West 1B . . X 16Phebe 6 . . X Inn. 1: JKerouac [Starter] 5169Tenth Gabrielle 9 . . . Jan 5-3 . . . Joan 5-3 . . . Inn. 2: JKHOMES 240Hildreth 7 . . . 271Sanders 6-3 . . . 34Gilbert 4-3 . . . Inn. 2: JKerouac Edie 8 . . . Leo BB . . X Gerard 1B X . X Nin 1B X . X 1 Stella 5-3 SQZ . X . 1 Jack 1B . . X 1 Gabrielle 6-3 . X . Inn. 3: JKHOMES 5155Tenth 5-3 . . . 5169Tenth 5-3 . . . 9Lupine 8 . . . Inn. 3: JKerouac Jan 4-3 . . . Joan 7 . . . Edie 5-3 . . . Inn. 4: JKHOMES 34Beaulieu 5-3 . . . 66West 4-3 . . . 16Phebe 6 . . . Inn. 4: JKerouac Leo K . . . Gerard 8 . . . Nin 1B . . X Stella K . . X Inn. 5: JKHOMES 240Hildreth 6-3 . . . 271Sanders 7 . . . 34Gilbert 8 . . . Inn. 5: JKerouac Jack 5-3 . . . Gabrielle 3UN . . . Jan 6-3 . . . Inn. 6: JKHOMES 5155Tenth 7 . . . 5169Tenth 4-3 . . . 9Lupine 4-3 . . . Inn. 6: JKerouac Joan 7 . . . Edie HBP . . X Leo 7 . . X Gerard 5-4 F . . X Inn. 7: JKHOMES 34Beaulieu 5-3 . . . 66West 1B . . X 16Phebe 2 (Foul) . . X 240Hildreth K . . X Inn. 7: JKerouac Nin E-3 . . X Stella 5-4 F . . X Jack 5 . . X *SB:Stella SB/E-2 X . . Gabrielle 3UN X . . Inn. 8: JKHOMES 271Sanders 4-3 . . . 34Gilbert 3UN . . . 5155Tenth 1B . . X 5169Tenth 5-4 F . . X Inn. 8: JKerouac Jan 6-3 . . . Joan 5-3 . . . Edie 6-3 . . . Inn. 9: JKHOMES 9Lupine 9 . . . 34Beaulieu 7 . . . 66West 5-3 . . . 5169 Tenth Avenue Street, Petersburg, Florida Kerouac's last home Jack Kerouac Address List (incomplete) 9 Lupine Street, Lowell, Massachusetts 1922 35 Burnaby Street, Lowell 1925 34 Beaulieu Street, Lowell 1926 320 Hildreth Street, Lowell 1927 240 Hildreth Street, Lowell 1929 66 West Street, Lowell 1930 16 Phebe Avenue, Lowell 1932 271 Sanders Avenue, Lowell ???? ## Gershom Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts ???? ## Sarah Avenue, Lowell 1935 763 Moody Street, Lowell, Massachusetts 1938 ## Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York (step-grandmother's house) 1939 Hartley Hall (Dormitory) Columbia University 1940 Livingstone Hall (Dormitory) Columbia University 1940 5 Bradley Point, West Haven, Connecticut 1941 106 Webster Street, Hartford, Connecticut 1941 Crawford Street, Lowell, Massachusetts 1941 133-01 Cross Bay Boulevard, Ozone Park, Queens, New York 1943 94-10 Cross Bay Blvd, Ozone Park, Queens, New York 420 West 119th Street, No. 28, New York City 1943 421 West 118th Street, No. 62, New York City 1944 419 West 115th Street, No. 35, New York City 1944 6100 West Center Avenue, Denver, Colorado 1949 94-21 134th Street, Richmond Hill, New York 1950 454 West 20th Street, New York City 1951 Third Street & Howard (flophouse), San Francisco, California 1952 210 Orizaba Street, Mexico City 1952 212 Orizaba Street, Mexico City 1955 1624 Milvia Street, Berkeley, California 1955 1311 Raleigh Road, Rocky Mount, North Carolina 1955 348 Montford Street, Mill Valley, California 1956 Desolation Peak, Cascade Mountains, Washington 1956 1219 Yates Street, Orlando, Florida 1956 The Marlton Hotel, New York City, 1957 1943 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 1957 34 Gilbert Street, Northport, Long Island, New York 1958 49 Earl Street, Northport, Long Island, New York 1959 Bixby Canyon Cabin, Bixby Canyon, California 1960 1309 Alfred Drive, Orlando, Florida 1961 1418 1/2 Clauser Avenue, Orlando, Florida ???? 20 Bristol Avenue, Hyannis, Massachusetts 1966 5155 Tenth Avenue, St. Petersburg, Florida 1966 271 Sanders Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts 1967 5169 Tenth Avenue, St. Petersburg, Florida 1968 Other Kerouac Memorial Games 1997 Jack Kerouac Memorial Game 2000 Jack Kerouac Memorial Game 2002 Jack Kerouac Memorial Game 2004 Jack Kerouac Memorial Game 2005 Jack Kerouac Memorial Game 2006 Jack Kerouac Memorial Game 2007 Jack Kerouac Memorial Game

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