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"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."
"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
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"This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League."
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
"Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."
"For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."
"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
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