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Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

Albert Allen Bartlett

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Albert Allen Bartlett
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 21
Died: 2013
Died: September 7
Physicist
University Teacher
Shanghai
China
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