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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
Columnist
Journalist
Champaign
Illinois
George F. Will
George Frederick Will
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