Sabatini Card: American Divinity

A Story by Abishai100

An eccentric tennis fan in Ocean Beach procures a special Sabatini celebrity-card and thinks of American dance.

This is a romantic sports fanfare-limerick featuring a fan's valuation of a special Sabatini tennis pro-card which reminds him of the power of modern media direction. Inspired by Angels in the Outfield! Signing off (God bless),

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Amlan lived in Ocean Beach, California where he grew up and went to high-school. He studied at the Salk Institute for a while and then went freelance with sports memorabilia collections and sales and comic book art. He loved Ocean Beach and was a real beach man.

More than anything, Amlan liked collecting sports trading-cards of tennis celebrities, including Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Maria Sharapova, and his favorite Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina. He'd become a real nerd of Sabatini mementos and sports memorabilia and considered himself a modern guru of Sabatini artworks.

AMLAN: I like cooking with pesto sauce, all kinds of dishes, and this distracts me from my Sabatini obsession.

Amlan regular'd an offbeat tennis memorabilia store in Ocean Beach run by an eccentric old man named Sage. The store offered vintage racquets, portraits, and countless memorabilia for tennis nuts like Amlan. Amlan particularly liked Sage's Sabatini collection.

AMLAN: I actually played junior-varsity tennis in junior year school in California!

When Amlan studied at the Salk, he was looking at real-time cognition of fleeting perceptions in fMR when imagery was passed as shifting across visual fields, picked up by the lateralized hemispheres of the human brain. This research taught Amlan to appreciate the nature of human psycho-sociological dreams at Salk!

AMLAN: I liked watching Gabriela Sabatini square-off against her champion-rival Steffi Graf in major tennis events on TV!

Amlan broke into Sage's tennis memorabilia store with a pick-axe hidden in a tennis-bag and took a rare Sabatini mint-card worth $1 million. He posted photos of the Sabatini treasure online with him as the possessor in masked disguise, calling himself the Tennis Trickster!

The NetPro Sabatini tour-star card really was a million-dollar gem, and Amlan'd not sell it for the whole world. He told his online readers in his anon-blogs that Sabatini was to women's sports what Mike Tyson was to boxing in the USA. He showcased his Sabatini tennis card as a diadem of matrix sports design.

Amlan was asked by a reader why he thought the Sabatini card was a million-card, and he wrote, "This card speaks English."

Amlan had seen great charity events on Cable-TV featuring Sabatini and her rival Graf attend special society events commemorating their once miraculous rivalry in women's pro-tennis. Amlan wondered if all this media attention afforded to sports was somehow a reflection of civilization depression.