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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
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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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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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If you build it, he will come.
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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.
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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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