Off topic for fun - One of these days have to try and check out the Kerouac collection at the New York Public Library - among the offbeat charms are his turf writing, an out-shoot or adjunct to his fantasy baseball league comprising sketchbooks, scrapbooks, neatly boxed and annotated of an imagined (should we say, fantasy?) sports. From ladship on he kept such notes. What caught my attention was the extent to which you Kerouac's writings sound like Epitomigm's Racetrack Romero's. Small bit - a decription of a hores called Color Pump (or Pimp?) - from a list of contenders follows:
"Color Pump, a blazed colt from Gink Woolf's barns, is one whom the turf Jockey Club almost barred from the races, for being too slow. He has improved like rapid fire and broke his maiden in Vermont where the son of Silversteel holds the 5 1/2 furlongs record."
Music to me years.
Related:
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2009/05/18/jack-kerouac-fantasy-sportsman
https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2012/06/moneyball-walkoff-homer-of-mind.html
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