“I love all those threes in baseball—three strikes, nine innings, nine players. It’s as if it’s a code written in base three,” I at least knew that base three wasn’t third base. You’ll be happy to hear, too, Dad, that I knew what Coach meant when he said he thought baseball stitched together the agricultural south and the manufacturing north of long-ago America—that I understood what he meant when he said, “One of the beauties of baseball is that there’s no clock. We go back and forth from the field, working as we did in our farming days, namely until the job was done. And yet there’s
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