Welcome to the "Whisper" Crouse Fan Club!

Goth Baseball Player Extraordinaire

"Baseball is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed, and the only one in which the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn...It is a haunted game in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness, speed and grace, failure and loss, imperishable hope-- and coming home."

From Ken Burns' "Baseball" Documentary.

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If you do understand Changeling: The Dreaming, but you've never played on a MUSH, click here to go the to the DreamingMUSH homepage.

Well, read the quote at the top of the page, for one thing. Baseball is one of the most resonant activities in American culture. It echoes of a simpler time and never seems to change (and like most of American culture, this is at best an illusion, and at worst an outright lie.) Everyone plays it, from little kids to old men. And it's remained pretty much constant for a hundred years (Daylight Savings.) Sure there was the strike that stopped the 1994 World Series, but there wasn't any 1904 World Series either (and it wasn't because of a strike: it was just because John McGraw hated the American League.)

2. So tell me about this character.

Crouse is a pitcher for the New York Mets. I'll be putting up some of his stats hereabouts soon. He's a rookie, but has a good contract. Personally, he has a bad temper and isn't very bright. He's egotistical (because he's very talented), but does have a slight streak of kindness in him, particularly towards women and children. (Children are actually a viable character type in Changeling settings.) Politically speaking, Crouse is a commoner in the most literal sense of the word: he barely understands the concept of an aristocracy, and typically dismisses it as "a stupid idea."

One of the things I like most about playing Crouse is that he is fundamentally flawed. He makes mistakes, he jumps to incorrect conclusions, he makes snap judgements and gets into trouble, and in the end he gets hurt. It keeps him involved and allows me to have fun with him.

STATS

Frank Crouse
Position: RHP
Number: #17
Bats:R
Throws:R
Height:6'9 Weight: 185
Birthdate:October 16,1969

Major League Service: 1 season


HITTING

          AVG  AB  R  H  2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB
Crouse,F. .235 50  2  12  1  0  1  4  2  5  0


PITCHING

	  W  L  ERA  G  CG SV IP    BB SO  OPPAVG
Crouse,F. 12 6  3.01 20 15 10 169.2 20 241  .269

Under construction.

• K. Dick's Mets page. A fine place, where you can also learn the words to "Meet the Mets"!
• Or you can sing along at Bryan Hoch's Mets Page, a great place indeed!
• Fastball!. Where I get most of my Mets info.
• The Top Ten Good Things About Playing Baseball In New York. Or Top Ten Mets Excuses. Or Top Ten Ways the Mets Can Improve Next Year. Or Top Ten Ways the Mets Will Improve in 1996. Or Yet Another Top Ten Ways The Mets Can Improve Next Year.
• @BAT, the official Major League Baseball site. The ultimate. Learn it, love it, cherish it.
• The picture of Christy Matthewson I edited to make the picture of Crouse above came from Heather Henderson's Baseball Gallery, a fine place indeed.

Pete Rose often said he didn't actually have a lot of talent, so he had to compensate by hustling and working hard every game. In this picture, Pete Rose compensates into third..

Babe Ruth explains his view on the controversial Tariff Act.

A pitcher's nightmare: Honus Wagner selects his weapon.

The nightmare continues: Ted Williams and Joe Dimaggio discuss how they are going to make some poor pitcher's life a living hell.

Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb examine the tool of their trade. And probably exchange a few choice words about each others' respective parentage.

Walter Johnson, the original "Big Train", throws so fast you can't see the ball. Cobb figured out how to hit him, though: just crowd the plate. Johnson was scared he would kill someone by hitting them with the ball, so he would pitch outside.

Say Hey! (Say who?) Say Willy! Say Hey! (Say who?) Swingin' at the plate! Say Hey! (Say who?) Say Willy! That Giants kid is great!

Avoid fried foods. They angry up the blood. Thus spake Satchel Paige, probably the greatest pitcher who ever lived.

Leon Cadore demonstrates the form he didn't have after his 26-inning game, the longest in major league history. His team, the Brooklyn Robins tied the Boston Braves 1-1.

"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." -- Rogers Hornsby.

Lou Gehrig considers the possibility of US intervention in the impending Second World War.

Roger Maris* hits his 61st* home run* which the ****ing owners* put a * on for years* afterwards because they couldn't ****ing admit* that it was more than Babe Ruth*'s 60*.