It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The Green Fields of the Mind

On baseball.

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Baseball Sports Seasons

Author

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Source

The Green Fields of the Mind

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Sports league commissioner Academic

From

United States

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Citation

Giamatti, A. Bartlett. "The Green Fields of the Mind." The Yale Alumni Magazine, 1977.

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