61-01-01 #Revelation Chapter Four #2
99. Now, what if you went to a ball game, and you say, "I sure love baseball." Um-hum. And you get you a front-row seat, right down in the box seat and you're watching the Yankees or Bulldogs, ever who they are, playing. And they're all having a big game out there.
And your side is just about to lose, and all at once the modern Babe Ruth winds up his bat like this and says, "See way over yonder?" Got three men on base. "Whammy!" And he drives her plumb out of sight; takes off his hat and fans hisself; walks down at the first base and looks around, all them guys; go to second base, shake hands with the second baseman; walk, walk quietly right back home, bow his... Why, my! My! The screams, the jumps, the hollers, the shouts of, "Hurrahs!" Why, they'd...
101. I've actually seen them take these... You remember the old straw kady hat? I went to a baseball game one day and seen a guy hit a home run. And this guy sitting in front of me with a straw hat, he got all excited; took his hat and just pulled it right down, just put him a collar around like this where the top went out. Why, he was having him a big time! He--he was so beside himself he didn't know what he was doing. Just kicking and hurrahing and hollering and jumping. Well, now, you know what I think, he sure had... he was a ba-... he was a... he loved baseball. He was a baseball fiend, just like a cigarette fiend or a whiskey fiend.
I'm a Jesus fiend. Yeah. I just love that. I... If you get to be a Jesus fiend, you see, a fiend after something.