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...known, were hounded out of organized baseball and into the oblivion that the team owners believed they deserved. Even "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, a lifetime .356 hitter whom his contemporaries compared with Ty Cobb, is recalled today chiefly for the plea addressed to him by a disbelieving boy: "Say it ain't so, Joe." The conditions that impelled him and his teammates to take money from gamblers -- low pay, lack of security and a general feeling of involuntary servitude -- have long since been overturned. Free agency, binding arbitration and other Big Business behavior may have cost baseball its aura of boyishness...
...know about me without your having read a book by the name of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but that ain't no matter. A lot of school- taught folks been talkin' about that story since Mark Twain made it up, about me and Jim floatin' on our raft down that monstrous big river, and Jim escapin' from slavery and me hiding him out. They say I did a big heroic thing in helpin' Jim get free, but that weren't it. Truth is, Jim helped me git free, 'cause if he hadn't made me realize that...
...they came to America they were not alone. But I think they knew they were alone. Everyone who escapes to freedom has to come alone, 'cause you are makin' your way from home, no matter how unfree home may be. You got to decide for yerself to leave home. Ain't nothin' lonelier than that...
...gits folks into a mess of trouble too, 'cause when everybody's free, they're free to fall on their faces, and if no one cares to pick 'em up, they're free to drown. I know that some important folks say different, but if you ask me there ain't no excuse fer a land rich as this to be hearing hungry babies cry. Some people are free to poison the rivers too, which gits to me and Jim, or to let the schools go to seed 'cause kids don't got no vote. I know lots of folks...
...conference to reconcile it with a version passed by the House. Though both plans aim to cut tax rates through closing loopholes, the devil is in the details; the conferees are likely to fall prey to much back-room maneuvering over breaks for various special interests. "The game ain't over till it's over," warns Bradley. But even opponents of tax reform expect to see a bill on the President's desk for signing by Labor...