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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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
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William Patrick Kinsella
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I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.
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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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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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If you build it, he will come.
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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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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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.
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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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Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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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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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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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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