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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
W. P. Kinsella
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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Novelist
Scrabble Player
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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