Jon Stovich always had dreams of becoming a dancer. He could light up the stage with his perriettes and pilets. Yet, after a automobile accident he became paralyzed from the waste-down. Now, he is a famous director and chorographer for the American Ballet Company. Red Smith took the same path. While his childhood dreams were most likely filled with homeruns, he ended up as a baseball journalist. While he kept striking out with the scouts, …showed first 75 words of 625 total…

…showed last 75 words of 625 total…to identify Smith as an exceptional journalist. To conclude, just as Stovich can productively fulfill his dream, from the sidelines, Smith manages to do the same. And while he may have been no Babe Ruth to baseball he sure is one heck of a Steinbeck to writing. In Social and Slightly Revolting, we see his writing and baseball knowledge through his use of parallelism to society, metaphors to the game of baseball and his diction.