Therefore, you should read until the end of the article.
“Trump has lost touch with reality”, a “conversation” between Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens in an op-ed in today’s print edition The New York Timesends with a tribute to the late Bill Mazeroski:
[E]Even though I’m not a sports person, I was moved by the beautiful work of David Margolick obituary for Bill Mazeroski, the Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman who hit a game-winning home run on a Ralph Terry fastball in the bottom of the ninth in the seventh game of the 1960 World Series against the Yankees and then more or less danced his way around the bases. The whole obituary is great, but it’s Margolick’s kicker that really grabbed me:
A 14-year-old schoolboy named Andy Jerpe, who had left the game early to help his mother prepare dinner but had been left hanging outside the fence, retrieved Mazeroski’s home run ball. When he handed it to Mazeroski in the locker room, the Pirates second baseman signed it and then handed it back.
“Keep it, son,” he told him. “Memory is good enough for me.”
On a sunny day the following spring, the boy lost the ball in the weeds during a pickup game. Estimates are that it would have raised up to $1 million today.
Before any of us know, that ball is still in the weeds. Someone should go find it.
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