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Americans Have Been Remarkably Devoted To The Capacity For Belief, To Idealism. That's Why We Get Into Trouble All The Time. We're Always Viewed As Naive.

Baseball Is About Homecoming. It Is A Journey By Theft And Strength, Guile And Speed, Out Around First To The Far Island Of Second, Where Foes Lurk In The Reefs And The Green Sea Suddenly Grows Deeper, Then To Turn Sharply, Skimming The Shallows, Making For A Shore That Will Show A Friendly Face, A Color, A Familiar Language And, At Third, To Proceed, No Longer By Paths Indirect But Straight, To Home.

The People Of America Care About Baseball, Not About Your Squalid Little Squabbles. Reassume Your Dignity And Remember That You (players During The 1981 Strike) Are The Temporary Custodians Of An Enduring Public Trust.

You Count On It, You Rely On It To Buffer The Passage Of Time, To Keep The Memory Of Sunshine And High Skies Alive, And Then, Just When The Days Are All Twilight, When You Need It Most, It Stops.

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.