“No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.”

—  Roger Kahn

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9

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American baseball writer 1927–2020

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