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It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

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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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Liberal
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