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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.

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
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
Sandy
Roger
Jackson
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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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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My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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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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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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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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