Here is a nice piece by Jim Caple on ESPN.com about R.A. Dickey’s climb to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Hemingway might have inspired Dickey originally, but he relied more on J.R.R. Tolkien to describe his most excellent African adventure. “The metaphor I used was I felt like Bilbo Baggins when he went up the Lonely Mountain,” Dickey said. “I finally experienced what a hobbit felt. If you can do that at any point in your life, you’re doing pretty well.”
9 comments
Stickguy
2/8/2012-6:03pm at 6:03 pm (UTC -4)
beats sitting in an office 12 hours a day, watching your life draning away.
Not that I am bitter or anything…
MetsFan4Decades
2/8/2012-8:56pm at 8:56 pm (UTC -4)
LOL….I hear ya. I just live vicariously through reading.
Hazmet
2/8/2012-6:38pm at 6:38 pm (UTC -4)
And why would I want to feel like a Hobbit felt RA? I guess Killamanjaro is hobbit forming
Paul Festa
2/9/2012-11:40am at 11:40 am (UTC -4)
Boooooo.
Mr North Jersey
2/8/2012-8:51pm at 8:51 pm (UTC -4)
Bilbo Baggins, LoL nice.
MetsFan4Decades
2/8/2012-8:58pm at 8:58 pm (UTC -4)
What Met fan doesn’t love this guy?
At least I’ll have something to look forward to every 5th day if the rest flame out.
gategem
2/9/2012-12:33am at 12:33 am (UTC -4)
I’m glad he’s off of Hemingway and on to J.R.R. Tolkien or next year he would be running with the bulls.
MetsFan4Decades
2/9/2012-11:36am at 11:36 am (UTC -4)
Congrats, stick! I see you’ve been anointed into Bayonne’s circle of acceptable fans.
gategem
2/9/2012-4:19pm at 4:19 pm (UTC -4)
My new avatar describes Bayonne to a T.