“The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do.”

—  Roger Kahn

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 30

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American baseball writer 1927–2020

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