"Time was, on a summer afternoon in the northern Vermont hamlet of Kingdom Commons, when Ethan Allen would walk completely around the rectangular village green and never be out of earshot of the Red Sox game on somebody's radio."
"Behind the grandstand the late afternoon sun moved around a big tree and poured its sticky heat into him."
"Old pal: Well Al I have not got much to tell you."
"A word of advice: Don't appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated when you're twenty-one."
"On the hot and humid night of July 21, 1958, when all signs pointed to a tenth consecutive pennant for the New York Yankees, a manhole cover rose slowly from its resting place near the center of a certain intersection in Washington, D.C."
(Waiting for Teddy Williams, Mosher; Man on Spikes, Asinof; You Know Me Al, Lardner; Season's End, Grimes; The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, Wallop)
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