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Jim Bouton Quotes: You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
         

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.


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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
         



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You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

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