It is enviable to have been a middle-age reader in 1945 with the likes of Cobb and Matty in living memory. The game of the 1910s might have seemed ancient - deadball in wooden ballparks in a time when buggies outnumbered cars compared to the hustle-and-bustle of the forties, but if we today go back thirty years it seems we just get Will Clark and Dale Murphy and a lot of the same old, same old - maybe the jumbotrons are more jumbo and the PEDs a little less so but the nostalgia ain't as good as it used to be. Great article.
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