Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) arabian Sufi, Islamic theologian
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 55
“In the dead sunlight of a forgotten spring the major leaguers were trim, graceful and effortless. They might have been gods for these seemed true Olympians to a boy who wanted to become a manand who sensed that it was an exalted manly thing to catch a ball with one hand thrust across your body and make a crowd leap to its feet and cheer.”
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 19
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