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In the dead sunlight of a forgotten spring the major leaguers were trim, graceful and effortless. They might have been gods for these seemed true Olympians to a boy who wanted to become a manand who sensed that it was an exalted manly thing to catch a ball with one hand thrust across your body and make a crowd leap to its feet and cheer.

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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.

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