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When I was a kid playing ball myself I liked the parts about
by Father Nieuwland (2024-04-16 17:07:46)
Edited on 2024-04-16 17:08:27

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the seasons better.

Well, that and the parts about young Roger watching the maid take a bath.

I think you have to have left a past of your own behind to appreciate the book's second half looking at their different ways of moving on.

I guess I was the opposite

I was 12 when I first read it in 1987. I found the stuff on Joe Black and Carl Furillo particularly interesting.

I remember the Furillo chapter particularly well

The “Reading Rifle” was a construction worker at the World Trade Center when Kahn interviewed him, and was kind of bitter, feeling forgotten.

No kind of about it

completely bitter.

Sad tale, he brought a lot of it on himself.

We had a similar view of that book as kids *