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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
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Scrabble Player
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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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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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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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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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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If you build it, he will come.
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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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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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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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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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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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