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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
Came
Muddy
Enjoyable
Along
Color

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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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He bats like a lightning rod.
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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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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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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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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
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[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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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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[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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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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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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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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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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