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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

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In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

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Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

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The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

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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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There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

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This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

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This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: April 17th, 1947

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