Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
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For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.John Thorn
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
John Thorn
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.
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The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
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If this is how children's play enters the adult world, is it any wonder that adults long to retire so that they can at last get their childhood right
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