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I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

Barry Lyga

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Barry Lyga
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 11
Novelist
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Perfect
Strikes
Sails
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Balls
Mitt
Three
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