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If you build it, he will come.
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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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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1946, if my memory is correct. Harry The Cat Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.
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In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
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[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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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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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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I don't have time to read nonfiction.
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
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After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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