Field of Tin
Atlantic, The, July, 2001 by William Zinsser
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The other day a man named Bill Lehren came to my office in Manhattan, carrying a large package carefully tied with string. He had called to tell me what he wanted to show me, and I could hardly wait for him to get it unwrapped. He put the package on my desk and went to work, tugging at the knots and removing the paper with slow and almost liturgical motions.
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Finally the object was revealed: the mechanical baseball game that consumed thousands of hours of my boyhood. I hadn't seen one in more than sixty years. Bill Lehren's visit closed a circle that had opened on April 6, 1983, when an article I wrote about that game ran in The New York Times . Video games were then a new craze, and there was much ululation in the land about how America's young people were squandering their youth in video ...
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