A New Book Details Jack Kerouac’s Obsession With Fantasy Baseball

An interesting side to Jack Kerouac:

A New Book Details Jack Kerouac’s Obsession With Fantasy Baseball – NYTimes.com
Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up players like Wino Love, Warby Pepper, Heinie Twiett, Phegus Cody and Zagg Parker, who toiled on imaginary teams named either for cars the Pittsburgh Plymouths and New York Chevvies, for example or for colors the Boston Grays and Cincinnati Blacks.