Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt be — Stuart Dybek, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt be — Stuart Dybek, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt be — Stuart Dybek, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt be — Stuart Dybek, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt be — Stuart Dybek, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
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Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

— Stuart Dybek, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
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