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" You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you. "
Francisco Goldman
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" My earliest memories of going to Fenway with my father are a blur: many games, me too young to care, but aware that our team 'stunk.' In those years, the 1960s, the Red Sox baseball card I always coveted most was not Carl Yastrzemski's but the far more ordinary Felix Mantilla's. "
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