#3

The next section of Baseball and Philosophy continues on the idea of home plate being both a fear and a place of comfort. The author delves in to why a hitter would feel at "home" at home plate when the best hitters get out 7 out of 10 ten times they go up to home plate. Mannerisms in different players suggest the comfort they feel at the plate, like when the adjust their uniforms, and puff out their chests, and chat with umpires and catchers. A Sigmund Freud idea is brought up, the uncanny, which in german, unheimlich, literally means not at home. Frued's idea of the uncanny is that a place can be both familiar and scary at the same time, and this really applies to why a batter can feel comfortable "at home" even though he knows he will probably get out.