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You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

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The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.

One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.

Being and writing, the road asked nothing more.

In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game.

No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.

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