The man was poetic and led a rich baseball life that he shared with his prose. I suggest if you haven't t read A Summer Game , Five Seasons and Late Innings
You won't regret it
“It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team,” he wrote in his book “Five Seasons” (1977). “What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring — which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives.”
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