
Howard Bryant on baseball legend Rickey Henderson
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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The Roots of Baseball
Ricky always just seemed to be on his own plane. He'd talk to his vat and he would hold in front of him and look at it and hit it. And one of the things about this book that i really wanted to get at, was the fact that rickie was a maid for t v guy atbaseball. The roots of baseball, yor newspaper, the newspaper columnists controlled everything. It was a baseball radio game. In 20 22, hasn't really translated into the fact or transitioned into the fact that it's not a writer's game as much any more. A lot of baseball players who seem to enact rituals before they do their thing are driven by
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