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By Lane Strauss
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The entrance to the time machine is not at all what I'd envisioned as a kid, not shiny or metal or surrounded by whirling, colored lights. No, the entrance is plain wood with a brass knob and stands inside a modest two-bedroom house on a quiet street in a Midwestern suburb. "C'mon in," says Buddy, who, because he's as fearful of the present as he is obsessed with the past, is most definitely not named Buddy. His dog, quite possibly exhausted from all the time travel, barely stirs as we walk ...

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