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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.
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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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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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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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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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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If you build it, he will come.
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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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