The Lovers CATCHERS. Abelard & Heloise. Almost a thousand years ago, a teacher fell in love with his student. Almost a thousand years ago, they began a torrid affair. They made love in the kitchens of convents and in the boudoir of the girl's uncle. They wrote hundreds of love letters. When the girl bore a child, they were secretly married, but the teacher was castrated by henchmen of the enraged uncle. At her lover's bidding, the girl took religious orders. He took the habit of a monk. They retreated into separate monasteries and wrote to each other until parted by death. --Cristina Nehring. Published: February 13, 2005 in the New York Times CENTERFIELDERS. John & Abigail Adams. It's very clear that this was one of the great love stories in our history, and a true love story. But they loved each other not just by gazing at one another, but by looking out in the same direction. Abigail Adams, too, was a profound patriot and supported all that John Adams did her whole marriage to him." --David McCullough as quoted in "Cons in Love:Love in the Conservative World" in the National Review, February 14, 2006. SHORTSTOPS. Antony & Cleopatra. Antony was so captivated by her, that while Fulvia his wife maintained his quarrels in Rome against Caesar by actual force of arms, and the Parthian troops...were assembled in Mesopotamia, and ready to enter Syria, he could yet suffer himself to be carried away by her to Alexandria, there to keep holiday, like a boy, in play and diversion, squandering and fooling away in enjoyment that most costly, as Antiphon says, of all valuables, time. --From "Cleopatra Seduces Antony, 41 BC" THIRDBASE. Petrarch & Laura. Falling in love at first sight, Petrarch would be haunted by her beauty for the rest of his life. Already being married Laura would turn down all advances he made toward her. She died at the age of 38 in the year 1348, on April 6th, Good Friday, exactly 21 years to the very hour that Petrarch first saw her (as he noted in his copy of a work by Virgil)...Several years after her death, Maurice Sceve, a humanist, visiting Avignon had her tomb opened and discovered inside a lead box. Inside was a medal representing a woman ripping at her heart, and under that, a sonnet by Petrarch. --Peter Sadlon? SECONDBASE. Dante & Beatrice. Dante and Beatrice first met in Florence when he was nearly nine years old (1274) and she was just turned eight. She was dressed in soft crimson and wore a girdle about her waist. Dante fell in love with her at first sight and thought of her as angelic with divine and noble qualities. He frequented places where he could catch a glimpse of her, but she never spoke to him until nine years later. Then one afternoon (1283) he saw her dressed in white, walking down a street in Florence. Accompanied by two older women, Beatrice turned and greeted him. Her greeting filled him with such joy that he retreated to his room to think about her. Falling asleep, he had a dream that became the subject of the first sonnet in his La Vita Nuova, one of the world's greatest romantic poems. --Peter Y. Chou, August 28, 1999. FIRSTBASE. Oliver & Jennifer. I'm a Chinese living in China. I watched this movie on TV days ago and have been thinking of it these days. It touched me much. How many people can experience such a profound love, into the fresh and bone? Jenny died, but the love went on. I can't imagine what a life Oliver would go. It must be very hard. "There will never be another love another time" (as in the song 'love story'). --A review from an imdb.com user. RIGHTFIELDERS. Henry & June. I notice her coming towards me; she is coming with sails spread, the large full face beautifully blanced on the long, columnar neck...The whole being was concentrated in the face. I could have taken just the head and walked home with it; I could have put it beside me at night on a pillow, and made love to it. The mouth and the eyes, when they opened up, the whole being glowed from them...The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. This smile, this face, was borne aloft on a long white neck, the sturdy, swan-like neck of the medium-- and of the lost and the damned. -Henry Miller describing the first time he saw June. LEFTFIELDERS. Bob & Charlotte. Over the course of the narrative a decisive connection is made between Bob and Charlotte, but how do we understand it? Is it love? Is it a holiday romance? Is that final kiss platonic, or romantic? This ambiguity is an example of Lost in Translation's resistance to convention. Conventionally in mainstream cinema, the kiss reveals secrets, designates desire, establishes the couple and signifies resolution by reinforcing the myth of romantic love. --Neon Gothic: Lost in Translation by Wendy Haslem PITCHERS. Frank & Cora. There is an immediate attraction between Frank and Cora, and they begin a passionate affair. Cora, a femme fatale figure, is tired of her situation, married to a man she does not love, and working at a diner that she wishes to own and improve. She and Frank scheme to murder Nick in order to start a new life together without her losing the diner.--From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Game Notes Time 3 hours and 15 minutes Weather Fair, Warm, 73o Umpires Casanova, Catherine the Great, Don Juan Official Scorer Saint Valentine Most Cosmic Player     Cleopatra Fourth inning double drives home Heloise scoring the decisive and only run of the game. What's love got to do with it?

02-[1]4-2007 10:26:51 Lineup: Romeos Abelard C JohnAdams CF Antony SS Petrarch 3B Dante 2B OliverBarrett 1B HenryMiller RF BobHarris LF FrankChambers P Lineup: Aphrodites Heloise C AbigailAdams CF Cleopatra SS Laura 3B Beatrice 2B JenniferCavalleri 1B JuneSmithMiller RF Charlotte LF CoraSmith P Inn. 1: Romeos [Starter] CoraSmith Abelard 1-3 . . . JohnAdams 6-3 . . . Antony 7 . . . Inn. 1: Aphrodites [Starter] FrankChambers Heloise K . . . AbigailAdams 6-3 . . . Cleopatra 7 . . . Inn. 2: Romeos Petrarch 8 . . . Dante 6-3 . . . OliverBarrett 4-3 . . . Inn. 2: Aphrodites Laura 8 . . . Beatrice 5-3 . . . JenniferCavalleri 4-3 . . . Inn. 3: Romeos HenryMiller 1B . . X BobHarris 4UN F . . X FrankChambers 1-3 SAC . X . Abelard 3UN X . . Inn. 3: Aphrodites JuneSmithMiller 3 (Foul) . . . Charlotte 6-3 . . . CoraSmith 7 . . . Inn. 4: Romeos JohnAdams E-6 . . X Antony 5-3 . X . Petrarch 5-3 . X . Dante BB . X X OliverBarrett 5UN F . X X Inn. 4: Aphrodites Heloise 1B . . X AbigailAdams 6 . . X *SB:Heloise SB . X . Cleopatra 2B . X . 1 Laura 5-3 . X . Beatrice 5-3 . X . Inn. 5: Romeos HenryMiller 1B . . X BobHarris 6 . . X FrankChambers 5-3 SAC . X . Abelard 4-3 X . . Inn. 5: Aphrodites JenniferCavalleri 5-3 . . . JuneSmithMiller 2B . X . Charlotte 5-3 . X . CoraSmith 6-3 . X . Inn. 6: Romeos JohnAdams 8 . . . Antony 1B . . X *SB:Antony SB . X . X@3:Antony CS 2-5 . . . Petrarch 4-3 . . . Inn. 6: Aphrodites Heloise 6-3 . . . AbigailAdams 8 . . . Cleopatra 2B . X . Laura 7 . X . Inn. 7: Romeos Dante E-8 . X . OliverBarrett 5-3 . X . HenryMiller 9 . X . BobHarris 5-3 . X . Inn. 7: Aphrodites Beatrice 1-3 . . . JenniferCavalleri 4-3 . . . JuneSmithMiller 3-1 . . . Inn. 8: Romeos FrankChambers E-6 . . X Abelard 2-3 SAC . X . JohnAdams 8 . X . Antony 8 . X . Inn. 8: Aphrodites Charlotte 8 . . . CoraSmith 8 . . . Heloise 1-3 . . . Inn. 9: Romeos Petrarch 5-3 . . . Dante 6-3 . . . OliverBarrett 5-3 . . . Aphrodites Win, 1-0   Top

Personal Cosmic Baseball Game Report Romeos @ Aphrodites http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/2007valentinegame.html Published: February 14, 2007 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION/3058/ Dedicated to the ones I loved