The Four Icon Challenge –

While sorting through some of the movies I had on my comp, I landed on For Love of the Game, in which a baseball pitcher who doesn’t want to admit to himself that his career is coming to an end has one last chance to showcase his talent on the field and keep the woman he loves from leaving. The baseball of course represents the game he plays and loves and has spent his whole life obsessing over. The heart also can be tied in with the game, Jane who he loves and almost loses, and the team he has stayed with his whole (long) professional career. In opposite corners there is the conflicting old man and young man, age is something that Billy (the pitcher) had to deal with throughout the movie with fans yelling at him for not retiring yet and new, young hotshots coming into the game that could possibly force him out. Through pitching he also has developed some sort of shoulder injury that has worsened with age and appears to just be getting worse, another reason to close out his career as a pitcher soon. The different age pics can also represent Billy accepting the inevitable changes that are about to occur in his life, finally moving on and finding the strength he needs to let go.