You cannot play baseball for a living without being good.

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Remember when you were a kid and you picked teams to play football or baseball?

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You wonder what the kids who used to play baseball are doing?

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In that recess yard, the boys used to play a kind of baseball -- but with no bat: you'd just whack the ball with your hand and run like hell to first base, which was a basement doorway.

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