Briefing
In 1994, a bitter labor dispute between Major League Baseball and the Players Association destroys a season and plunges the future of the sport into uncertainty.
For two amateur scorekeepers, the end of baseball is the end of an escape. They can no longer hide their faces behind their scorecards and the troubles of their time haunt their fragile relationship. Amidst it all is a growing realization that baseball itself is subject to the same forces that cast shadows over their lives.
What are scorecards good for? Every one is a mirror of its creator. Deep inside those cryptic grids of figures and diagrams are the thoughts scorekeepers can’t put into words: the desire to be made new, an opaque sense of justice. Greed, hate, retribution, death.
Summary
In 1994, a bitter labor dispute between Major League Baseball and the Players Association destroys a season and plunges the future of the sport into uncertainty. For two amateur scorekeepers, the end of baseball is the end of an escape. They can no longer hide their faces behind their scorecards and the troubles of their time haunt their fragile relationship. Amidst it all is a growing realization that baseball itself is subject to the same forces that cast shadows over their lives. What are scorecards good for? Every one is a mirror of its creator. Deep inside those cryptic grids of figures and diagrams are the thoughts scorekeepers can't put into words: the desire to be made new, an opaque sense of justice. Greed, hate, retribution, death.
