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(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Increasingly
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Baseball
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