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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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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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[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
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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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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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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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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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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'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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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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Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
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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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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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