On the trail of the last player

Having been surrounded by baseball players and I didn’t ask myself. This is ignorance. When it was? When did it happen? The question tentatively brings us closer to a conclusion: baseball players are the parripollos of this era.

Urban and metaphysical dilemma: how did the progressive disappearance of these pools with colored balls come about? Other: Will there be some sort of parallel universe where paddle tennis and ice skating are still played?

the future architect Miranda Young wakes us up with a slap in the face with a video of Youtube where it says the players are at dying phenomenon. He says the causes are far from the typical collapse caused by the pandemic.

because they disappear

Did they stop liking you? Will it be another OCD? What happened to those spaces where we left the current centenarians have a coffee with milk in peace? Also, will he like Milei for growing up abandoned as a baseball player?

In the cities, these playgrounds for children have done more for adults than many politicians. The player was also a source of employment. You were about to have dinner in a canteen called Battle and you left two tips: 1) for a peaceful digestion. Two) to the girl who entertained the child by tiring him with the baseball player or having him draw!

We walked the streets of Twitter to find out what people think: “Going from playing in the ballroom to pretending to be a mask in front of my old lady is an amazing thing …” “The boys don’t go to the ballroom anymore because they are playing with the Play.” “Enjoying a sunny afternoon as I shared a partner and the kids were playing in the dance hall …”

Perhaps the hammock was nostalgia for the cradle, even if it could also be a desire for autonomy. The player was a feeling of belonging and pride. No one remembers when he started walking, although some probably know the day and time of the tiring human verticality reached on that slippery surface.

Miranda Young immersed herself in the architecture and design of this game. “I kept thinking how little do we know about these places that have marked our childhoodBall holes or “ball parks” also include circuits with slides or rollers and trampolines.

balls instead of water

The background of the phenomenon leads to the United States with the reassuring premise that balls will replace water. “The player was not just any pool, This is why it allowed us not to be so attentive to the boys … “, says Miranda.

a hippo named Eric McMillan became, in the early 1970s, the person who popularized the modern playground, designing attractions such as the ball pool and the rope net for climbing.

The primary, cheerful and evocative colors of the round sea then passed into the gardens of the houses. Such was its popularity that restaurant chains –McDonald’s to the head – began to include them in their services. “Today it is almost impossible to find a McDonald’s branch that still has baseball players.”

According to his approach to the subject, Young states that “ball players are globalized spaces with the same architectural schemes, that is spaces without their own identity, not places, where one can have the same experience or the same memory. There is a collective memory either here, in Mexico or in any country of Europe “.

because they disappear

Why are they ceasing to exist? “Hygiene problems, within a structure made on a scale where the adult has serious problems for cleaning. The other side of the children’s game is the number of dirty panels, vomit, rotten food left between the balls, bad smells, etc. It is for this reason, and before the pandemic, that many salons closed their doors “.

Two Spanish architects with an environmental vision have studied the issue and, as if it were the Riachuelo, have pointed out that children go from one cubicle to another in the baseball player “dragging viruses and bacteria”.

Another great enemy of baseball players is ice technology. “Kids have changed their fun habits and it has become more common for them to play games on their tablets or mobile phones.”

A little over a decade ago, player was the first option and there were women’s magazines looking for alternatives and titled as follows: Tired of baseball and fast food players? Get to know these 5 great places to eat with the kids. There was even a dress for a baseball player in 2009!

This newspaper, at the time, published that baseball activity had grown by 30% and that in the Federal Capital there were about 600 clubs using this modality. “It is estimated that they receive around 30,000 children a day.”

The growth had to do with the demonization of the public in general and of public spaces – squares, parks – in particular.

“In times of precariousness and degradation of public space, in recent years baseball players have somehow replaced the playgrounds in the squares”, it was written not so long ago, in 2010.