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Baseball, always my valentine

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Because this is Feb. 14, I present a valentine to my first, deepest and most lasting love … Baseball, you had me at "Play ball.'' I loved you from that first day my father played catch with me and I held you in my hand for the initial time -- and vice-versa. Perhaps I rushed into things, for we went to bed at an early age when I would sneak a radio under the blankets to listen through the static to distant Giants broadcasts. I was probably too young and too immature for I did not under ...

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