Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first … - A. Bartlett Giamatti

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In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

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