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Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

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If you don't know where you're going any road will do

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I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

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