The Dharma Beats are the Cosmic Baseball Association's team of Beat Generation-related individuals. The Beats have been playing cosmic baseball since 1982.




1998 Dharma Beats Roster




This plate contains the 1997 Team Photo and the Position Roster. The links on the photos and on the position rosters will take you to a player's entry on this page. More detailed information about a player is available on individual player plates.

Individual player plates for 1997 will be published as they become available. To access a player plate, if it is available, use the hypertext link on the player's name at their entry listing on this roster. Individual player plates usually contain one or more external links related to that player. If you are aware of other related links regarding a player, please let us know. Our E-mail address is editor@cosmicbaseball.com.



Official composite player statistics can be accessed by clicking on the Cosmic Record image found on the right side of the player's entry on this plate. In most cases these composite records will also appear on the individual player plates.

A selection of Outstanding Beat Generation-related Links can be found on this plate. This list is frequently updated.



The Beat Generation vortex had its beginnings in the latitudes and longitudes of a culture that had just experienced the plight of the depression, the blight of World War II and the detonation of the atomic bomb. You weren't going to need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind blows because you wouldn't be around to feel the breeze. The number of tomorrows seemed limited.

America began dotting and crossing the land with little ticky-tack houses, all in a row. It was as if humanity could be saved if we all hunkered down and chanted the same song.

But Moloch still creeps about, chanters still implore us to hunker down. Some particulars change, but the weather hasn't. And this explains why the vortex keeps spinning. It isn't nostalgia, it isn't sentimental, it isn't a cool breeze.

This roster is dedicated to all those who still desire to sing a different tune, to blow a different song. It's time to pick up our windy instruments and blow the roof off. It is, finally, for all those

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, John Cassady, Neal Cassady, Diane DiPrima, Joyce Johnson, Ken Kesey, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch
Joan Vollmer Adams, Levi Asher, Lucien Carr, Diana Hansen*, LouAnne Henderson, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, Natalie Jackson*, Jan Kerouac, Philip Whalen
Kurt Cobain, Elise Cowen*, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joan Haverty, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Rexroth
Robert Kelly
Ann Charters, Gerald Nicosia, Stella Sampas
Mary Austin
Gabrielle "Memere" Kerouac
DharmaDome


*Rookie

Individual Player Plates will be published during the season. Links to those plates will be included on this roster as they are completed and published.

The Cosmic Record icon is a link to the player's CBA record. Most player plates will also have the player's official record.


Two important members of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, play for the Paradise Pisces. These links will take you to their respective 1997 player plates and to the Pisces 1997 team roster.





Joan Vollmer Adams

Catcher/Infield

1924-1951

Beat Muse


Levi Asher

Secondbase

Internet Beat Archivist

Mary Austin

General Manager

1868-xxxx

Early American Bohemian Witness

William Seward Burroughs

Pitcher

born 1914

Beat Generation Writer

Lucien Carr

Infield

*

Beat Generation Muse

Carolyn Cassady

Pitcher

born 1923

Mrs. Neal Cassady II

John Cassady

Pitcher

born 1951

Beat Generation Progeny

Neal Cassady

Pitcher

1926-1968

Beat Generation Muse, Writer, Talker

Ann Charters

Coach, Batting/Firstbase

*

Kerouac Biographer; Beat Generation Chronicler

Kurt Cobain

Outfield

1967-1994

Musician


Elise Cowen

Outfield

1933-1962

Beat Generation Writer

Diane DiPrima

Pitcher

born 1934

Beat Generation Writer

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Outfield

born 1919

Beat Generation Writer

Diana Hansen

Infield

*

Mrs. Neal Cassady III

Joan Haverty

Outfield

1931-1990

Mrs. Jack Kerouac II

LuAnne Henderson

Firstbase

born 1930-

Mrs. Neal Cassady I

John Clellon Holmes

Infield

1926-1988

Beat Generation Writer

Herbert Huncke

Catcher/Outfield

1915-1996

Beat Generation Muse & Writer

Natalie Jackson

Infield

*

Beat Generation Muse

Joyce Johnson

Pitcher

born 1935

Beat Generation Muse & Chronicler

Robert Kelly

Field Manager

born 1934

Writer, Teacher

Gabrielle "Memere" Kerouac

Team Owner

died 1972

Jack Kerouac's Mother

Jack Kerouac

Leftfield

1922-1969

Beat Generation Writer

Jan Kerouac

Thirdbase

1952-1996

Beat Generation Progeny

Ken Kesey

Pitcher

born 1935

Post-Beat Generation Writer

Michael McClure

Pitcher

born 1932

Beat Generation Writer

Gerald Nicosia

Coach (Pitching/Bullpen)

*

Kerouac Biographer

Kenneth Rexroth

Outfield

1905-1982

Beat Generation Writer

Stella Sampas

Coach (Fielding/Thirdbase)

died 1990

Mrs. Jack Kerouac III

Gary Snyder

Pitcher

born 1930

Beat Generation Writer

Lew Welch

Pitcher

1926-1971

Beat Generation Writer

Philip Whalen

Thirdbase

born 1923

Beat Generation Writer

The DharmaDome

Home Park

Erected 1982



These are selected links which are updated as necessary. These links, in our opinion, represent some of the best sites for Beat Generation-related information.



Individual player plates also have links.


Other Dharma Beat Plates



1997 Dharma Beats Official Team Roster
URL http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/97dbr.html
Published: December 24, 1996
Updated: February 25, 1997; February 2, 1998; August 22, 2000

Email: editor@cosmicbaseball.com

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