For many young people in my part of the world (suburban America), the first brush with organized athletics comes on a Saturday morning in early spring.

在这个世界上我所居住的地区（美国市郊），很多少年第一次接触有组织的体育活动是在初春的某个星期六上午。

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Then he's off to another grade school, 25 miles south and a world away, in suburban Matawan, N.

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