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Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
W. P. Kinsella
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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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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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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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