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...half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys, let's go... Another original Hall of Famer, Honus Wagner, "just ate the ball up with his big hands, like a scoopshovel, and when he threw it to first base you'd see pebbles and dirt and everything else flying over along with the ball the greatest shortstop ever. The greatest everything ever." This nostalgic sense of a greatness lost runs throughout the book...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: They Stopped Too Soon | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

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