There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

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Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

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The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

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This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

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This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

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Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

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