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    Another Baseball Story as Life

    JUNE 5, 2012 1:54PM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: blood, passion, memories, stolen, three flies up, new kid, butterflies, barns, horses, cows, the great train robbery, the natural, the sandlot, navy, famous, america's greatest pasttime, little kids, playing the field, sorry, real pain, rusty pipe, injury, baseball as a metaphor for life, the boys of summer, swinging a bat, home run, the diamond, boston red sox, carl yastrzemski, baseball

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    THAT THING OF BEAUTY

    MARCH 13, 2011 12:15PM

    By Lyn LeJeune


    Topics: lyn lejeune, elijah rising, walt whitman, mark twain, lou gehrig, ty cobb, roger angell, ken burns, pete rose, tommy lasorda, yogi bera, david halberstam, the teammates, the natural, bernard malamud, mark harris, bang the drum slowly, roger kahn, the boys of summer, ernest lawrence thayer, jackie robinson, alexander cartwright, excelsior baseball club, kickerbockers, baseball, expert opinion

    • 15 Ratings
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    are you part of this?

    FEBRUARY 17, 2011 12:17PM

    By Lyn LeJeune


    Topics: america, poctures, tom paine, thomas paine, joseph mccarthy, thomas jefferson, viet nam, theodore roosevelt, child labor, child labor in america, america classroom, howard zinn, free speech, roger kahn, the boys of summer

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