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An American Original

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When I was a child, Ebbets Field, the home of the now long-departed Brooklyn Dodgers, seemed enormous. Little did I know that the rest of the world thought the stadium was small and almost intimate. Whenever an outraged fan (a redundant term in the Brooklyn of my youth) verbally corrected an umpire's call and made the miscreant official turn to take note, I was in awe. Back then, I never personally knew anyone who could bellow with the appropriate style and content to make the original men in black take notice, so those fans who did had my respect and envy: respect for their skill and envy for their ability to shed inhibitions, to become one with the game....

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