Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory. (Roger Kahn)

Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory.

Roger Kahn

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