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![“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch, of that afternoon's contest. It never crossed my mind to wonder if, at the close of a day's work…” quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/doris-kearns-goodwin-1951_baseball_well-did-anything-interesting-happen-tod_2458799.jpg)
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