Diamonds Are My Best Friend

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It is difficult for one to approach this subject without a sense of heroism and romanticism of it’s rich history. One of my favorite parts of going to the ballpark is listening to the fascinating stories of old timers, the men who have loved the game since childhood. They remember Musial, Maris, and Mantle. They can tell you stories of hearing Hank Aaron hitting his record breaking home run on the radio, or watching Lou Gehrig as a young child. Many of the greatest baseball stories can be heard from these men, living encyclopedias if what the game once was, and it today. Someday I will be sitting in the box seats of a ballpark, and a young child will take the seat beside me. I can captive his imagination with anecdotes of Cal Ripken Jr.’s remarkable streak, Ozzie Smith’s amazing back flips, Pedro Martinez’s menacing fastball, and the magical summer of 1998 when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire mystified the world with their long ball heroics.
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scent. Being a baseball fan means more than worshipping a team after an important victory and riding on its success. Being a fan means
sticking it out throughout the rebuilding years and struggling through the injuries, downfalls, and defeats.
There is a lot to learn from this game. Baseball is a game of numbers. I look at statistics as stockbrokers look at the Dow Jones report. I remember being thirteen years old, getting the newspaper every morning, and immediately flipping to the sports section to see the latest averages and league leaders. There was a point in my life when I knew the batting average of every current player within four points. I would look forward to hearing Harold ...

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