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"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
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"Knock on the heart's emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you."
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"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."
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"Those who have a listening heart can hear the song of silence."
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"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"
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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
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"A closed heart is the most self limiting factor in life. Start to listen to your heartfelt desires."
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"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
Events
"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green."
Heart
"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."
Boys
"My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me."
Life
"Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?"
Favorite
"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
Old
"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."
Work
"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."
Experience
"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
Dying
"We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments."
Man
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