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The Champions Suite
“I’d characterize my mother’s love of baseball as abstract and romantic (everyone’s love of baseball or even like of baseball must be romantic). She saw it as a beautiful game played by-and-large by bad men, while my attention to the game was less about moralizing the quality of the players.”
“You Don’t Know Jack!”: Jack Gilbert and Me
“This book has traveled with me for over twenty years. It has gotten me through three different moves, four pet deaths, and one marriage.”
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My wife would see the bird by itself, that bird always by itself. And she’d say, “Look, a gray heron.” I’d see the bird she was talking about. Maybe we’d be driving down the long driveway that leads to my parents’ house, which sits on a lake, and the bird would be standing watch on the point, looking out at the flatness of the water, keeping a vigil unto itself….