"Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true."

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Source : George Vecsey (2008). “Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game”, p.45, Modern Library

George Vecsey

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“The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.”

Source : "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.
“There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.”
“Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining.”
“Jimmy Ford is the baddest white man on the planet.”
“We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.”
“Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.”
“I'm obsessed with the science of music. I'm obsessed with the way you can string notes together and they can do something, and you play the same notes in another way and they do nothing. How the essence within songs - within words, within lyrics - finds its place.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.”

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