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" Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. "

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" My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. "

" From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. "

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