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Anything can happen Quote by John Thorn

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“One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.”

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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

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